Organ and Blood Donation

Sir or Madam,

I would  like to present you the Organ and Blood Donation section of BMSA, whose enthusiastic members -very much like other groups of our Association- give prevention classes to high school students.

We have three major topics (45 minutes each )

• Blood donation: we would like to highlight the importance of voluntary blood donation, how many lives can saved by it. We also include information about the trending topic of plasma donation, and we cover knowledge about blood, that is required in biology final exams.
• Stem cell transplantation: we talk about voluntary donation, the process and what diseases can be cured this way. We illustrate the European and Hungarian development and current state of bone marrow transplantation with pictures, charts and figures.
• Organ transplantation: this topic includes legal backgrounds, brain death, and which organs can be transplanted, with some extra information about the given organ. This topic gives us the opportunity to talk about each organ, and so to help students prepare for their final exams.

These subjects are not part of basic education, therefore we hope we provide students with new knowledge.
In general we try to emphasize the following points:

• Information useful for final exams (blood types, Rh disease)
• Interesting facts
• Topics that concern high school students, like blood and plasma donation.

If you are here to ask us to give a lesson on this topic, please send us an e-mail to orafelkeres.boe@gmail.com. We will then contact you.
Should you be interested, or have any questions, requests, do not hesitate to contact us at: transzplantkoord.boe@gmail.com.

Thank you for your help!

Boglárka Huszár
Head of Organ and Blood Donation
transzplantkoord.boe@gmail.com.