Gers president of associations for blood donation, Marie-Chantal Roumat recently spoke at the general meeting of the Gers Football District
What are your expectations ?
My expectations were to be able to motivate all the people who make up the Gers Football District (leaders, volunteers, male and female players) to perform a civic act, a generous act that can save lives at any time. Indeed, this generous act is blood donation and today in France. Every day 10,000 donations are needed to cover the needs of hospitals and clinics (surgical operations, domestic accidents, road accidents, diseases such as cancers, autoimmune diseases, etc.)
In practice, what should you do if you want to donate blood today? Do we have any criteria to meet?
The French Blood Establishment is launching online appointment booking. To make an appointment is simple, just go to the site mon-rdv-dondesang.efs.sante.fr/ or call 0 800 972 100.
Making an appointment allows you to plan your blood donation independently. It also makes it possible to facilitate the reception of donors, to avoid waiting and, in the current health context, to facilitate the implementation of barrier gestures. Time slots are of course available to donors who come spontaneously without an appointment. The Auch Site, within the grounds of the Hospital Parking n°1 (every Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., and every Thursday from 10 a.m. from 2:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.).
There are indeed criteria to be met: be at least 18 years old (no derogation possible); to be in a good health ; weigh at least 50 kg. It is also recommended not to come on an empty stomach (you must have eaten and be well hydrated to donate blood)
A word, a conclusion?
Donating blood is a generous gesture of inestimable value, an act that saves thousands of lives every year.
I am speaking more particularly to all these young athletes who are in great shape because I hope that one day each of them will become a new donor by stretching out their arm and saying to themselves “with a pocket of gosh, I saved 3 lives!”
