In Orange, blood donations have been in free fall for 10 years

2024-01-07 09:57:56

They provide 12 collections per year. They are the fifty members of the Orange voluntary blood donation association, chaired for 18 years by Suzanne Gras. “Every two months, we carry out two afternoons of collection,” confides the septuagenarian. Last year, 734 donors were welcomed (compared to 722, in 2022), for a total of 622 bags collected (612). In 2023, 69 new donors reached out, compared to 46 the previous year. A 39% drop in donors over the last decade If these figures are slightly increasing, they are clearly not if we go back to 2013. “Ten years ago, 1,200 donors allowed us to fill 1,059 bags. We then registered 109 new donors,” explains the president. A

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