Who can donate blood

All people who are resident in Romania can donate blood if the following conditions must be met:

• you can donate blood if you have between 18 and 60 years old;

• you can donate blood if you have a weight greater than 50 kg;

• you can donate blood if you have a regular pulse 60/100 beats per minute;

• you can donate blood if you have a systolic blood pressure between 100 and 180 mm Hg;

• you can donate blood, in case you had a surgery, only 6 months later;

• you can donate blood if you are not pregnant;

• you can donate blood if you have not menstrual cycle;

• you can donate blood if you do not use drugs;

• you can donate blood if you did not drink 48 hours before the day of donation;

• you can donate blood if you did not eat greasy foods 48 hours before the day of donation;

You can donate blood if you do not use medicines for the latest diseases:

• Hypertension

• Cardiac disease

• Renal disease

• Mental illness

• Liver disease

• Endocrine disease

You can donate blood if you do not have and you never did not have the following disease:

• All kind of hepatitis

• TB

• Syphilis

• Malaria

• Epilepsy and neurological diseases

• Mentally disturbed

• Brucellosis

• Ulcer

• Diabetes mellitus

• Cardiac disease

• Skin diseases like psoriasis and vitiligo

• Myopia over -6 dioptres

• Cancer.