CAMAGÜEY.- With more than 9,000 active donors, stable deliveries since 2012, and the mission to continue adding young people to the movement, this province is at the forefront of the National Blood Program in Cuba, in operation since the 1960s .

This was said to the press by Iris Jiménez Valero, provincial coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) and Yoanca Fernández Céspedes, director of the Blood Bank in this territory, also incorporated into the plasmapheresis program, useful to the medical industry - pharmaceutical

These reasons support the decision that will be here where on June 14, in the plaza of the Carlos J. Finlay University of Medical Sciences, this Island celebrates the national act for Blood Donor World Day, which on this occasion proposes the slogan Safe Blood for everyone.

In addition, since Thursday 6, numerous work centers, communities of the province and mass organizations recognize outstanding donors and champion youth detachments.

One of the most relevant actions among the proposals to commemorate the date will be the day 12, when the visit of blood and plasma donors to the oncology, hematology and hemodialysis rooms of the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Pediatric Hospital.

Translated by Luis David Vazquez Verdecia. English Language Student.