falls today Friday, June 14the World Blood Donor DayIt was established by the World Health Organization in 2004 on the day of the birth of Austrian-born professor Karl Landsteiner (1869-1943), an American who was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering blood groups in 1900. For Medicine and Physiology.
Since then blood donation has accompanied the technological development of medicine and surgery and today is essential for the normal functioning of hospitals all over the world and the possibility of carrying out countless treatments, not only in emergency cases, such as minimally complicated surgical interventions, effective treatment of organ, tumors and neurodegenerative diseases, etc. Blood donor associations have been guaranteeing the availability of blood and plasma products for almost a century, promoting blood donation and recommending a healthy lifestyle among young people.
Blood donations only in Italy they save the lives of 640,000 people every year, even if the number of donors is decreasing, especially among young people. For this reason, it aims to become one today Invitation Anyone from 18 to 65 years of age, in good health add buy million and a half people donate blood in our country every year. The opportunity to spread the Culture of Donation, be it blood – plasma, bone marrow or organs. It is also an opportunity to raise awareness of the value of the Italian transfusion model as an example of excellence, placing the role of volunteerism and non-profit associations at the center.
Also Municipality of TrentoThe Volunteering Capital of Europe wants to remember the importance of this generous gesture. Fountain of Neptune Along with Piazza Duomo Reda symbol of the solidarity of numerous blood donors.