Can I donate blood for money in Russia?

The practice of paid donation in Russia beforelast time flourished. Some people in the literal sense of the word "earned" on blood. It was true that it could not bring much money, but ... Those who wanted to donate blood for money paid 580 rubles for one collection. Thus the person was deprived approximately 400 ml of a precious liquid. According to medical recommendations, this procedure can be repeated every two weeks, but many people who constantly need money managed to donate blood for money ten times a month. Since January this year, they have no such opportunity.

Free donation is a normal practice forEuropean countries, but in Russia this innovation led to a sharp reduction in people willing to share their blood with their neighbors. Many clinics began to experience a deficit of donors, which affected the recovery of their patients. Therefore, some cities initiated a possibility to donate blood at the municipal level. Moscow for the money accepts donors at the same reception points as before, just pay their "sacrifice" not the state, but the local budget.

According to the new law,for the collection of platelets, granulocytes and blood plasma. These procedures are somewhat more complicated than the "normal" surrender, which lasts about fifteen minutes and consists in the fact that blood flows from a vein of any hand through a syringe into a special vessel. The collection of platelets, for example, lasts a couple of days. First, the patient takes the necessary amount of blood, check for lack of disease.

Then it is extracted from it 400 ml of the platelets themselves, and"Purified" blood is poured back to the donor. For such a procedure, the donor, as a rule, has to stay permanently in the clinic. Recovery after the delivery of platelets is longer.

Despite legislative innovations, to hand overblood for money in Russia is possible. The law does not prohibit such practices, simply does not provide for payment from the state budget for this direction. The opinion of doctors, public figures, politicians and the needy in this regard are divided. The adherents of the new law argue its usefulness by the fact that many people for whom blood money was previously considered a good work for a fortune will be deprived of such an 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, including AIDS.

Now, according to opponents of paid donation, only people who knowingly decided to help others and are confident that they will not be able to harm the needy will share their blood.

Opponents of freedonations. According to them, earlier there were problems with the presence of blood of the right group and rhesus, and now even critical situations are possible. The likelihood of infecting a patient through a transfusion should be reduced to "no" by properly checking the raw materials.

Will it get accustomed to the conditions of the Russian mentalityEuropean practice of free donation, time will tell. In the meantime, despite the new law, in any clinic you will be told how and where to donate blood for money.

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