Guldental: Blood donations are missing – former blood recipients donate regularly today

• Kai Gzer from Guldental survives the accident 13 years ago only through donor blood
• Pflzer donate today blood regularly
• A lot at the moment too few blood donations from Rhineland-Palatinate

In Rhineland-Palatinate there is currently a massive lack of blood donations. A spokesman for the DRK blood donation service west is therefore appealing to everyone who can donate to do so. Because blood donations are necessary to save lives. This is also shown by the history of Kai Gnz from Guldental in Rhineland-Palatinate.

A former blood recipient now regularly donates blood himself

Without blood donations, 36-year-old Kai Gnz would probably not be alive today. Once again DRK Blood Donation Service West reports, the shop fitter was turned into a thirteen years ago dramatic industrial accident involved. At that time he was working in a plastics recycling company.

When the accident happened, Gnz was preparing one machine for a conversion. For this he had to climb it from the inside. Then the accident: another employee, who knew nothing about the maintenance, switches the machine on. The then 23-year-old is pulled into it and caught up in the agitator. He manages to free himself, but the planter will seriously injured.

As a result of the accident, Gnz underwent emergency surgery for 14 hours, during which he seven blood units is dependent who save his life. After the Pfflzer found his way back to life, he decided to become a blood donor himself in order to help others who were affected: “It was always clear to me that blood donations are important. However, when I was dependent on it myself and it was mine lives saved have, I decided, myself blood donor to become.”

Lack of donor blood: “Currently, much less is being donated than we need”

Today you can no longer see the consequences of his serious accident on Kai Gnz, who is now a father of two. But just like the Pfflzer once upon a time, many people are there every day blood donations reliant. The DRK Blood Donation Service West reports the daily need in the distribution area (in addition to Rhineland-Palatinate, this also includes North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland). 3,500 donations per day an.

A need that cannot be met at the moment. “There’s a lot going on at the moment less donatedthan we need,” said Stephan David Kpper from the DRK Blood Donation Service West inRLP.de. That is a problem with which the service has to fight again and again. The consequences are serious: Already now he could need for donor blood can no longer be covered across many blood groups.

However, donations are sufficient to ensure that people who, like Kai Gnz once had a serious accident or who are dependent on donations due to illness, can continue to be helped urgently necessary. Kpper therefore appeals to everyone who can donate to do so. “That would be fantastic“, he summarizes.

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