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Ángel Escalera
Malaga's Regional Blood Transfusion Centre (CRTS) has appealed for people to make a donation in the days leading up to Easter so that there is no shortage and the supply to hospitals is guaranteed. Volunteers can give blood at the CRTS, located at
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Ángel Escalera
donors. The 157 operations are 43 fewer than the 200 carried out in 2019 and 89 fewer than 2018. The Regional Hospital is part of the Malaga Transplant Sector, which is also made up of the Virgen de la Victoria (Clínico), Antequera, Axarquía, ... Torrecárdenas (Almeria), Poniente (Almeria), Ceuta and Melilla hospitals. The Regional was the Andalusian hospital that performed the most kidney transplants last year: 106, of which eight were from living donors. Likewise, 83 corneas were implanted thanks ... to 53 donors, which represents 50 per cent of all operations of that kind in Andalucía. The coordinator of the Malaga Transplant Sector, Domingo Daga, applauded the efforts of the professionals who, despite having to deal with exceptional
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ÁNGEL ESCALERA
Blood can't be made; it can only be obtained through donations. This is why the regional centre for blood transfusions (CRTS) has launched an appeal for donations to guarantee supplies for hospitals in the province of Malaga, both private and public,
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Ángel Escalera
Blood supplies at the Regional Blood Transfusion Centre (CRTS) were below minimum levels earlier this week which caused health professionals to send out an urgent appeal for donors to come forward. As usual the appeal touched the solidarity of the ... earlier in August. Plus, our regular donors are away on holiday, there is a massive influx of tourists, many operating theatres [which often close in August] have stayed open, and units such as Oncology and Intensive Care still require blood. All these ... factors have led to the sums not adding up. The appeal has gone out to donors from all type of blood groups. Whenever we make an appeal, we make sure that blood donors come from all different types of groups, especially from groups O and A, which are
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Ángel Escalera
The Regional Blood Transfusion Centre is calling for people from all blood groups to donate after reserves of blood fell below their minimum levels. They are particularly interested in donors from the O+ and O- blood types. Isidro Prat, director
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ÁNGEL ESCALERA
Pablo Ráez's message is still having an effect and the number of new bone marrow donors who registered in Malaga province last year was 300 per cent higher than expected. Pablo, a young man from Marbella who died of leukaemia in February last ... year, inspired numerous people to join his campaign for bone marrow donors, and his story went viral on social media. Andalucía now has more bone marrow donors than any other region of Spain, says Isidro Prat, the director of the Regional Blood ... Transfusion Centre (CRTS), which registers and manages these donations in Andalucía. By the end of November last year, 19,079 people in the region had registered as donors, and the number had risen to over 20,000 by the end of the year. In Malaga there were
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JUAN SOTO
...which will entail a stay in hospital. His campaign to encourage people to become bone marrow donors, with a much more altruistic objective than obtaining a cure for himself, resulted in the donor banks expanding by 1,300 per cent in Malaga province ... and many people like Nereida, Patricia, Miguel, Miriam, Pablo, Lidia, Sonia, Lorena and Mariem (who feature in this article) registered as donors and decided to continue Pablo's legacy. Pablo Ráez's legacy will live on in a documentary which will ... province and then around the world through barely a handful of posts on Twitter, only 200 people a month were registering as donors. That figure rose to 2,000 and in 2016 the province registered a record 11,201 new bone marrow donors, which was an increase
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...family home near Marbella, they arranged a visit to the rescue centre and since then they have been generous donors. This summer the girls went one step further, offering to foster one of the rescued horses and help with training before finding a
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“The first transgenic transplants of pig hearts in humans will take place in 1996,” the newspapers of the 90s used to say, but the 'mad cow' crisis and the spread of Aids put a stop to the idea of xenotransplants for fear that humans could be contami
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...story because I want to encourage people to become donors," he says, shyly. There is nothing strange in that: for more than two decades he has witnessed how a generous gesture when someone dies makes all the difference in saving the life of others.