The practice of paid donation in Russia has flourished until recently. Some people literally “earned” blood. True, this, however, could not bring, however ... Those who wanted to donate blood for money were paid 580 rubles for one fee. At the same time, a person lost about 400 ml of precious fluid. According to medical recommendations, this procedure can be repeated once every two weeks, but many people who are constantly in need of funds have managed to donate blood for money from a dozen times a month. Since January of this year they have not had such an opportunity.
Free donation is a normal practice for European countries, however, in Russia, such an innovation has led to a sharp reduction in those who want to share blood with their neighbors. Many clinics began to experience a shortage of donors, which affected the recovery of their patients. Therefore, some cities initiated at the municipal level the ability to
donate blood for a fee
. Moscow accepts donors
for money at the same points of reception as before, it’s not the state that pays for their “victim”, but the
local budget.According to the new law, services for collecting platelets, granulocytes and blood plasma remained paid . These procedures are somewhat more complicated than the “usual” donation, which lasts about fifteen minutes and consists in the fact that blood from a vein of any hand passes through a syringe into a special vessel. Platelet collection, for example, lasts a couple of days. First, the patient takes the necessary amount of blood, check it for the absence of diseases.
Then, 400 ml of platelets themselves are isolated from it, and the "purified" blood is poured back to the donor. For such a procedure, the donor, as a rule, has to stay in a hospital permanently. Recovery after platelet delivery is longer.
Despite legislative innovations, it is possible to donate blood for money in Russia. The law does not prohibit such practice, it simply does not provide for payments from the state budget in this direction. The opinions of doctors, public figures, politicians and those in need on this issue were divided. Adherents of the new law argue its usefulness by the fact that many people who previously donated blood for money was considered a good extra income will be deprived of this opportunity. And this is good, because very often the lifestyle of these people was far from healthy, which often led to infection of patients with various infectious diseases, up to AIDS.
Now, according to opponents of paid donation, only people who consciously decided to help others and are confident that they will not be able to harm those in need will share their blood.
Opponents of free donation are willing to argue with them. According to them, earlier there were problems with the presence of blood of the desired group and Rhesus, and now even critical situations are possible. The likelihood of infecting the patient through transfusion should be reduced to “no” by a correct check of raw materials.
Will the European practice of free donation take root in the Russian mentality, time will tell. In the meantime, in spite of the new law, in any clinic they will tell you how and where to donate blood for money.