Around 220 delegates from all over Italy have been in Sanremo since this morning for the 62nd FIDAS National Congress. An appointment which, in addition to the two days of assembly work and the election of new federal offices, will also feature the 41st FIDAS Donor Day.
At the center of the debate is importance of the self-sufficiency of blood and its products Which strategic objective to be achieved for the country, both in normal conditions and in critical periods. A meeting between experts to compare European transfusion systems and to take stock, in one round table to be held tomorrow at 10on how different models and best practices can be used as effective tools to ensure the appropriateness of blood resource management.
Giving their contribution to this comparison is Professor Vincenzo De Angelisdirector of the Italian National Blood Center, of the French one, Professor Jean Baptiste Thibertand the Swiss one, professor Stefano Fontana, together with other experts and the presidents of blood donor associations. The meeting will also be an opportunity to highlight the importance of blood donation in contemporary medical practice and the role they play donors and donors in the social-health sector.
“The Congress represents a fundamental moment to reflect on the cultural value of donation which, through a profuse daily commitment, has the aim of bringing more and more people to carry out this great gesture of altruism and generosity. A first big step to be part of a supportive community that can save lives with a small gesture.” This was declared by Giovanni Musso, National FIDAS president.
“Every 11 seconds in the world there is a need for a blood transfusion and every day in Italy over 1,800 people undergo transfusions, not counting those who use plasma-derived drugs. Every year in our country 2.5 million units of blood are needed – continues Musso – and 5 donations per hundred inhabitants allow for the transfusion of approximately 1750 patients per day. These data photograph a situation that clearly outlines why donating blood and plasma is a fundamental value for a civil society”.
This year the theme chosen for the Congress is “The drop that makes life flourish again” which represents the very essence of FIDAS’ mission, and which will see protagonists in the city known throughout the world for its flowers and the great singing festival 80 Federated, 200 delegatesabout 3,000 people from the world of volunteering. “The Congress will also be an opportunity to celebrate the results of the FIDAS Federations which, during 2023, have made a decisive contribution to the national autonomy of blood and blood components. But also a way to recognize – concludes President FiDAS – the extraordinary value of the contribution that this part of the world makes every day to the well-being of the community in which it lives”.
An intense program of work which, in addition to conferences, will leave room for convivial meetings in full FIDAS spirit, that of the beauty that lies behind a civic, supportive, voluntary, free and healthy gesture. Three days entirely dedicated to solidarity and giving: until Sunday, at the Opera Theater of the Municipal Casino of Sanremo, the 62nd FIDAS National Congress and the 41st Donor Day which will be held under the aegis of the Liguria Region, the Province of Imperia, the Municipality of Sanremo and the Municipal Casino and various partners.
