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Plaque on Via Sant'Antonino in Firenze (), marking the place of birth of Dr. Vittorio Formentano, founder of AVIS.The Associazione Volontari Italiani del Sangue (AVIS) ("Association of Voluntary Italian Blood Donors [1]") is the major Italian non-profit and charitable organisation for blood donation, bringing together over a million volunteer blood donors across Italy.
The theme of the 2012 World Blood Donor Day campaign, "Every blood donor is a hero" focuses on the idea that everyone can become a hero by giving blood. Based on data reported by 180 countries between 2011 and 2013, the WHO estimated that approximately 112.5 million units of blood were being collected annually.
The donor’s red blood cells are then fed back into their bloodstream. This process can take up to one to two hours. The longest part of the plasma donation is the component separation process.
2012 - 96600 units of blood in single day; 2014 - They have collected 100,212 units of blood in single day and got their name registered in the Guinness Book of Records; 2016 - Conducted marathon world longest blood donation drive by organizing nonstop blood donation camps from 01 Jan 2016 to 31 December 2016 in parts of country.
Blood Centers of the Pacific was a community-based, nonprofit blood center collecting blood donations and provides safe blood and blood components for transfusion and also related services to more than 40 hospitals [1] in the Bay Area and Northern California. Its predecessors included the first blood bank in the United States, which through ...
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