In Loperhet, the results of the last blood drive in 2021 are considered good. “Wednesday and Thursday, 194 donors, and especially nine first donors presented themselves”, announces Bernard Le Lous, president of the Association of blood donors of the Country of Daoulas. And among them was Georges Hervé. At the end of the sample, the Loperhetois received congratulations from the medical team. It was indeed his very last gift. ” There it’s finished. It was my last donation. On April 13, I will be 71 years old. The age limit to be able to donate blood, ”he said, to his emotion. It was in the Paris region that he became a donor in 1970. “At the time, samples were taken directly at the place of the company. A medical vehicle was then moving. It was always Thursday and Friday. There was a great attendance, it was even somewhere a source of pride in giving blood, and above all very useful, ”remembers Georges Hervé, then an employee of the Post, Telegraph and Telephone (PTT).
The importance of donating blood
A commitment that he continued, in 1975, when he arrived in Brest, then in Loperhet, in 1984. “I participate in an average of three donations per year. It’s a simple gesture that can save many lives. It would be good if there were more people to donate blood, ”says the man who was also the president of the local lay association for six years. And although he is still thinking about it, Georges Hervé could well in the future join the team of volunteers of the Amicale des donors de sang du Pays de Daoulas, thus joining his running comrade, Bernard Le Lous, the responsible for the Amicale.
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