Canary
points health at the forefront of the country, with the inauguration in a few months bank umbilical cord blood and setting up a milk bank, which is scheduled for 2012, announced yesterday the president of the Institute of Blood Donation and Hemotherapy Canario, Jose Gilberto Moreno.
At a meeting in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with the media to report the data for blood donations in the Islands for the period from 2010, which was attended by the regional director of Health, Fernando Banyoles, Moreno explained that the facilities of the Institute for Blood Donation and Hemotherapy are being remodeled in the two provinces "to launch a new laboratory and continued to incorporate into our donation activity umbilical cord blood, breast milk and other tissues. "
Stem cells and breast
" Having a bank stem cells is an important development in the Canary Islands hope for the research and cure of many diseases, "said Moreno, who also recalled that" there was a pioneering "blood storage of stem cells" in a hospital in La Candelaria, Tenerife, although the activity stalled at the expense of crediting the hospitals canaries as extraction centers.
In this regard, Moreno emphasized that these storage points stem cells must be coordinated with existing state-level "in order to collect the greatest number of possible phenotypes," he said, and cover a range over comprehensive genetic characteristics of the inhabitants of all regions.
Institute President Canario Hemotherapy Blood Donation and also stressed the importance of implementation of a storage bank breast milk, a pioneer in the Canary Islands, for women who are not in a position to breastfeed their children, creatures that must be between zero and two años para beneficiarse de este avance.
La leche materna deberá mantenerse a -80 grados en los almacenes del instituto canario, para lo cual se irán efectuado reformas en sus sedes, "algo que está sujeto a los tiempos económicos", según Gilberto Moreno, "porque estos servicios precisan de unas reformas importantes en ambas sedes". El personal del Instituto Canario de Hemodonación y Hemoterapia deberá recibir también la preparación necesaria para desarrollar correctamente su labor.
Autoabastecimiento
Por otro lado, Bañolas destacó que en materia de donación Blood Island "has been a slight decrease of 1.48% over the past 2010" with respect to the previous annuity, in which there were 69,457 voluntary withdrawals compared to 70,502 in 2009.
The Minister linked this fall "with the decline in donations in the hospitals of the province of Las Palmas, estimated at -7.35% - and falling out of hospital donations in a -7.66% in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. "
The Minister also noted that were Gran Canaria and Lanzarote islands where there were more grants and also indicated that despite the decline "canaries centers are supplied "blood for the interventions they need.
In 2010, he added Banyoles, have increased by 0.75% people who donate two or more times per year and reduced donations from people aged between 25 and 40, who until last year that more blood was donated.