Transfusion medicine

A BRITISH tourist has been left traumatized after saying her artery was severed after plummeting down a 72ft "extreme" water slide in Bulgaria.

Jade Graves, 29, claims she needed a transfusion after hemorrhaging blood from a freak injury on the "90-degree" drop ride.

War, natural disasters, epidemics, poverty, migration are crisis situations, the same as the lack of blood, because you cannot save lives without blood, said the Custodian of the Romanian Crown, Margareta, the President of the Romanian Red Cross, who made an appeal to people to donate blood. Her message was sent on the occasion of the 143rd anniversary of the Romanian Red Cross.

On the occasion of the World Blood Donor Day - June 14, the Bulgarian Red Cross and the National Center for Clinical and Transfusion Hematology (NCTH) will award the long-time voluntary and gratuitous blood donors with honorary plaques. They were nominated by a commission involving representatives of the two institutions, based on proposals from across the country.

The results of a research program investigating Mediterranean anemia, or thalassemia, which affects thousands of Greeks, are said to be encouraging that a cure to the disease could be on the horizon, Kathimerini understands.

Another blood donation began in Pirogov on Monday. Among the first donors are Dr. Blagomir Zdravkov from Children's department and Dr. Antonius Tenev from Child Surgery.

Anyone who wants to follow the example of the two doctors can do it today and tomorrow, February 25 and 26, from 9:30 to 14:30.

With the project "You've never did this" The University Hospital in Burgas challenges the graduates from the city to donate blood before their prom. Thus, young people can save many lives. This was reported by the Bulgarian National Television. 

Many young people have no attitude to blood donation.

The National Center for Blood Donation (EKEA) is on Thursday coordinating a second day of blood donations for victims of the catastrophic fires in Attica last week.

Would-be donors should visit the area set aside for EKEA's initiative within Syntagma metro station between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Greek health authorities are calling for blood donations of blood and blood components to help burn victims from the deadly east Attica fire.

"In difficult times like these, we should all contribute as we can," the National Blood Center said in an announcement on Tuesday, stressing that supplies are currently short because of the summer holidays.

There are a number of examples that prove that human cruelty sometimes has no limits. This is the case of the dog Rex. When the dog was taken to a veterinary clinic in Volgograd in Russia, doctors thought he would not survive long.

The National Center for Blood Donation (EKEA) is aiming to establish four blood donation points across the capital as well as seven mobile units over the coming months, Kathimerini understands.

One of the fixed points is to be located in Egaleo, western Athens, another in Kallithea and a third on central Stadiou Street. The location of the fourth fixed point has yet to be confirmed.