Given the prevention measures taken in recent days in the city, some guidelines have been taken into account to maintain the supply of blood and blood components to the hospital network of the capital. One of them is the realization of blood donation days with strict biosecurity protocols.

Blood and blood components are essential biological products to guarantee permanent transfusions to patients (oncohematological, maternal, ICU, pediatric, renal, cancer and trauma) who require them throughout the city's hospital network.

The collection of blood components will take place in residential complexes and the fixed point of the District Blood Bank IDCBIS, located in the District Health Secretariat. Mobile units will move to mobilize duly identified blood bank personnel, as well as the transfer of donors to donation sites.

The general population is urged to carry out a previous registration to be contacted and to be able to coordinate the logistics to make the donation with all the biosecurity measures. The reactivation of the city also allowed the different hospitals to call for surgeries, which has doubled the need for blood components.

"The blood that is donated does not have a price, it has a value: life itself", says Dr. Bernardo Camacho, director of the District Institute of Science, Biotechnology and Innovation in Health, who asks for the solidarity of Bogota residents between 18 and 65 years of age in good health. Patients in different clinical situations require blood components as a priority to improve their health or save their lives.

Donation requirements are very simple