The French Blood Establishment (EFS) is launching an emergency appeal for blood donations due to “too low” blood reserves in France. The institution also recalls that people vaccinated against Covid-19 can still donate blood.
Blood reserves now too low
The French Blood Establishment (EFS) is launching an emergency appeal because of too low blood reserves. According to her “ with less than 85,000 bags, blood reserves are now too low and the situation is very fragile, in particular for blood groups O and B “. This is why she calls on the French to “ massively mobilize »For blood donation. She explained that 100,000 bags are necessary to have a level of reserve allowing to have enough blood of each blood group in all hospitals. Gold, ” the account is not there. We miss over 2,000 donors every week »Says the EFS.
The significant drop in blood reserves can be explained by the many public holidays in May as well as by the drop in attendance at blood drives with deconfinement. As the summer period may further favor this decline, the EFS indicated that it ideally hoped to reach 120,000 pockets before the summer.
Donate blood even after being vaccinated against Covid-19
To promote blood donation and avoid doubts, the French Blood Establishment reminds that it is quite possible to donate blood after having been vaccinated against Covid-19, without any postponement period to be observed. . As for people with symptoms of the coronavirus, the EFS explains that they must wait 14 days after the symptoms disappear to be able to donate their blood.
Be that as it may, the public establishment reiterated that all precautionary measures are taken for blood donations in order to avoid the risks of transmission of the coronavirus, namely: the wearing of the compulsory mask, the measures of distancing or making appointments to reduce waiting time and better manage the care of each donor.
As a reminder, you can go to the dondesang.efs.sante.fr site and / or to the Blood donation application to find out the collection locations. As for the site mon-rdv-dondesang.efs.sante.fr, it allows you to make an appointment directly.
