Taking an example from the Olympic Games, the French Blood Establishment is offering residents of the Dijon area the opportunity to beat records in terms of plasma donation.
The need for plasma-derived medicines is increasing every day. Some have even doubled in France since 2007, accentuating France’s dependence on foreign plasma. To overcome this and respond to the challenge of health sovereignty guaranteeing the care of all patients, it becomes essential to raise widespread awareness among citizens. To engage many of them in the process of giving and regular giving.
A big challenge, but accessible. Indeed, the raw material to make these drugs is an unlimited resource that flows within each of us. It remains to be known!
The EFS and the Associations for voluntary blood donation call on citizens to take up the challenge of solidarity: donating blood or plasma, 2024 is an opportunity to give more often and to have those around you donate, to develop the collection of plasma to meet patient needs.
So for an Olympic year of all records, reveal the Plasmathlete in you, give, give again and give back! Every action counts to ensure the care of all patients. Plasmathletics Games in Dijon: start for records to be broken!
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In a nod to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Burgundy-Franche-Comté Plasma Games have a great ambition: to set the record for the number of donors in the region. All year round, the Plasmathlétique drop will go from collection to collection and at local events across the region, engaging donors and partners in the dynamic of promoting plasma.
During its stop in Dijon, the EFS invites the people of Dijon to take up the challenge of solidarity: donating blood or plasma, 2024 is an opportunity to give more often and to have those around you donate, to develop the collection of plasma at height of patient needs. Donor or not, everyone can participate in the solidarity chain.
The main thing is to participate. At the Plasmathletics Games, everyone wins. Each commitment will make it possible to meet the ambitious challenge of collecting ever more plasma. Some, more noticed and remarkable, will be honored at the end of the operation, whether they are given the title of donors or ambassadors of the donation:
– Podium of the most liked publications on social networks
– Podium of the most noted and remarkable promotional actions
– Podium of donors having accumulated the most donations
– Plasma quiz podium
— Podium for media reports, internal and external communications from companies/organizations and educational establishments…
On this occasion, the French Blood Establishment organized an institutional highlight this Tuesday, May 14, bringing together members of the great chain of donation solidarity: elected officials, volunteers, partner companies or communities, each of these committed partners contributes its contribution to the ‘building.
Eric Monnin, vice-president of Olympism at the University of Franche-Comté and director of the Center for University Olympic Studies and Research, recalled the common values between Olympism and blood donation, and presented an exhibition dedicated, including the Olympic flame that he carried at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
Plasma, this precious liquid that flows through our veins
Plasma is the liquid part of the blood in which our blood cells (red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets) circulate. It contains proteins and antibodies which have major therapeutic interest, used in the form of transfusions or transformed into medicine to treat various pathologies.
Medicines derived from plasma, and for which there is a sharp increase in need, treat:
• People in intensive care
• People with immune deficiencies and certain autoimmune diseases, including people with cancer
• Hemophiliacs thanks to coagulation factors.
Among these patients, those with chronic illnesses have frequent needs: every 5 weeks, or even every 2 or 3 weeks.
In recent years, the uses of plasma have continued to diversify and expand. The aging of the population, the increase in chronic diseases and the evolution of medical practices are all factors explaining the explosion in needs, which creates a situation of distortion between supply and demand for medicines derived from plasma in France is in the world. If to date in France, no patient requiring a blood transfusion has lacked the blood product they needed, the situation is different regarding medicines produced from plasma. The various health and geopolitical crises of recent years have highlighted the issue of France’s health sovereignty in plasma-derived medicines.
Today dependent on other countries to meet the needs of patients for medicines derived from plasma, France must develop the collection of plasma in order to guarantee the care of these patients in all circumstances and while preserving its ethical model.
An ethical question at the heart of the debate
Faced with the important challenge posed by plasma collection, the position of the EFS is clear: if the question of plasma supply is a real challenge, it cannot be resolved to the detriment of ethics.
Unlike what is practiced in certain countries (such as the United States, but also European countries including Hungary, Germany or the Czech Republic), the French model is based on the ethical principle of non-commodification of human body: plasma donations are not remunerated.
The health and protection of donors and the safety of the blood and plasma supply are priorities for the establishment.
Plasma donation in practice: 2 ways to donate plasma
• When donating blood, the “classic” donation offered at all collection locations which allows the donor’s red blood cells, platelets and plasma to be collected. The collection only lasts 10 minutes. You can give up to 6 times a year for a man and 4 times for a woman.
• When donating plasma, the EFS only extracts the donor’s plasma and returns the other components. This method allows us to collect two to four times more plasma than when donating blood. The longer collection lasts between 45 and 60 minutes, which allows the donor to have a quiet moment lying down to take the time to rest, connect or disconnect. You can give up to 24 times a year! This donation is only made in the donation houses.
To donate plasma, you must be in good health and meet these few conditions:
• Be between 18 and 65 years old
• Weigh more than 55 kg for a first plasma donation
• Present an identity card, as for any other type of donation
• Respect a period of 2 weeks between a plasma donation and any other donation (blood, plasma or platelets).
It is possible to donate up to 24 times per year maximum.
Blood donation eligibility test
Plasma donation eligibility test
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