AVIS Andria event on June 14th

When every day, in our country, 1,800 patients need a blood transfusion, we cannot pretend not to have understood and look the other way. There are many citizens who are aware of their civic duty and solidarity towards those who, for various reasons, are in difficulty and need help that is otherwise unavailable. It is known that blood is a medicine and that every single donation, of blood or other blood components, for many sick people, represents a real lifesaver not available in any other way except through donation from another anonymous, voluntary and non-voluntary human being. paid. There are many donors, but we cannot take for granted that they will always be sufficient to guarantee the availability of the blood necessary to satisfy all the healthcare activities guaranteed by the National Health Service. We experienced this during the period of the Covid pandemic which caused a drastic drop in donations. No major problems occurred because, at the same time, other hospital activities were reduced to the bare minimum; but the fears and fears, unjustified as the act of donating blood is a safe gesture, took us back many years in the volumes of blood and plasma collected. Which is why, also in view of the start of the summer season which, for many reasons, sees a physiological decline in donations, AVIS Comunale Andria invites all citizens to go and donate before leaving for the holidays and, if this is precisely it is not possible, remind them that it is also possible to do it in the places they reach, so
Before going on holiday, donate!
If you want you can!
To underline and thank those who actively participate in this great work of solidarity, on 14 June each year we celebrate the World Blood Donor Dayestablished in 2005 by the World Health Organization, in honor of the Austrian biologist Karl Landsteiner, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine for having discovered blood groups in the early 1900s, thus making the practical and widespread use of blood transfusions possible.
On the occasion of this day, there are many initiatives planned by AVIS throughout the national territory to raise awareness as many people as possible, especially among the new generations, of the culture of solidarity through the donation of blood.
AVIS Andria, continuing in the tradition of what has been achieved in previous years, achieved Sunday 09 June 2024, a blood drive at the Transfusion Center of the city hospital and scheduled for Friday June 14, 2024:

• in the morning from 08.00 to 11.30, an extraordinary blood collection, with the positioning of a blood bank in Piazza Municipio, on the Palazzo di Città side, available to citizens who wish to donate to show that they have understood the need for blood donation;
• in the evening a musical show by the Andria artist MISGA who from 9.00 pm will perform in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II (Piazza Catuma) as a sign of thanks for all the donors of the City of Andria and as a stimulus for those, especially the younger ones, who do not they still have become.

In conjunction with the musical performance, the young people and volunteers of the Universal Civil Service of AVIS Andria will be available for the distribution of information material and to answer citizens’ questions and curiosities.
The commitment of all the volunteers of our Association is to constantly continue to spread the fundamental value of the gesture of blood donation, insisting above all on the new generations who represent the primary objective of our Municipality. Considering the need for generational change necessary to guarantee the continuity of blood collection to maintain the self-sufficiency of our transfusion system, we are constantly committed to identifying and following, also with the use of the most widespread social networks, all possible paths to arrive at them and to help and stimulate them to overcome the fears and hesitations that might stop them from carrying out a simple and safe gesture but with profound ethical and social value.