Between 300 and 350 transfusions of blood products are performed daily in Moldova. An average of 350-400 donations per day are required to maintain adequate supplies at all times.
The need is about 75,000 donations per year. During and after holidays and during vacations, donations are usually lower. Therefore, collection campaigns are organized, during which stocks are traditionally increased to make up for shortfalls during other periods.
According to Silvia Rosca, Director of the NCPC, the Moldovan population is very receptive and there are currently 195 regular voluntary donors.
She noted that a regular voluntary blood donor is a person who has donated blood at least four times a year or plasma at least 20 times, or has donated blood associated with five plasma donations in five consecutive years.
Each person who donates blood receives a certificate with a donation code that can be presented at work. The donor is given two additional days off with pay – on the day of blood donation and the next day. To compensate for the calories lost as a result of blood collection, each donor receives a set of foodstuffs. Regular donors are also provided with social guarantees stipulated by the legislation.
In Moldova, the institutions with increased consumption of blood products are the Republican Clinical Hospital, the Institute of Oncology, the Emergency Hospital, the Mother and Child Center and the Sfanta Treime Municipal Hospital.
