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International Blood Donor Day is celebrated every year on June 14 in order to raise awareness of blood donations and marks the birthday of Dr. Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian physician and biologist who discovered the existence of various blood types in 1900. This fact now allows blood transfusions to be given to patients who need this treatment to save their lives.

According to MDA blood services data, during the past year (to date), 271,305 blood units were donated in Israel that helped save the lives of about 800,000 sick, injured and mothers in the country. 68.5% of blood donations were donated by men (185,739) and 31.5% by women (85,566). The data published by MDA also shows that IDF soldiers donated 68,875 blood units, which is a quarter of all blood units donated in Israel in the past year. 17% of all blood donors (48,447) donated blood this year for the first time in their lives.

The director of the MDA's national blood donation department, Lior Altman: "Thanks to the generosity of the residents of the State of Israel, the citizens and the soldiers, we are able to reach the required target during the year to provide the blood units to the sick and injured. We thank the many donors who took their time and came to donate. "Every three months, blood can be donated and we invite the public to continue this important life-saving mission."

MDA's Deputy Director General- Blood Services, Prof. Eilat Shinar: "Today we mark International Blood Donor Day following the important discovery of blood types by Dr. Karl Landsteiner more than 120 years ago, which is still in use today and thanks to Provide blood transfusions safely to the sick and injured. It is important to remember that in order to meet the needs of the health system in order to treat those who need a blood transfusion to save their lives MDA blood services are required to donate 1,000 blood units each day. To improve the specificity of the test, a new, modern and more accurate system was added this year that allows the identification of diseases that may be transmitted by blood transfusions, such as viral hepatitis and AIDS, and a more specific detection of virus carriers. MDA's blood services will move during the year to their new home in Ramla, to the world's first blood bank building built underground and protected against conventional and unconventional threats. The new blood bank will contain state-of-the-art equipment from the world's leading technologies "MDA's blood services thank all the blood donors and those who recovered from corona and came to donate plasma that made it possible to treat patients with coronary heart disease."

MDA Director General Eli Bin: "In many cases, a life-saving operation involves blood transfusions that come from the donor's arm through Magen David Adom's blood services to the patient and thus assist in critical medical care. With the help of hundreds of thousands of donors each year, "This important life-saving mission is possible and helps the sick, injured and mothers throughout the country. We thank the citizens of Israel who donate, time and time again, for the highest value of giving and donate a bloody volunteer for the benefit of all residents of the State of Israel."