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14 Plasma <strong>KCE</strong> Reports 120<br />

2.1.2.2 Collected Quantities<br />

N<strong>in</strong>ety six percent of the blood and plasma donations <strong>in</strong> Belgium are collected by the<br />

Red Cross, which has been placed under the responsibility of the Belgian Red Cross<br />

s<strong>in</strong>ce its <strong>in</strong>ception <strong>in</strong> 1935. Four non Red Cross blood centres, at Charleroi Hospital<br />

and UCL Hospital Mont-God<strong>in</strong>ne, AZ S<strong>in</strong>t-Jan Brugge and the Service militaire du sang<br />

account for the rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g blood collections. All donations are made by voluntary noncompensated<br />

donors, although some donors (from public sector) may receive time off<br />

work <strong>in</strong> addition to the time for donation. Although the Red Cross collects donations<br />

by plasmapheres<strong>is</strong> (source plasma), the bigger part of plasma <strong>in</strong>tended for fractionation<br />

<strong>is</strong> recovered plasma (from whole blood donations). Th<strong>is</strong> <strong>report</strong> focuses solely on the<br />

two organizations which form the “transfusion service”: <strong>The</strong> SFS = le Service<br />

Francophone du Sang and the VDB = De Vlaamse Dienst voor het Bloed.<br />

Table 1 and figure 1 show the trend <strong>in</strong> donations of whole blood and plasmapheres<strong>is</strong><br />

from 2000 to 2008. We note that the overall number of donations of whole blood <strong>is</strong><br />

very stable between the start and end of the period under review. However, th<strong>is</strong><br />

stability between these two dates (2000 and 2008) obscures the fall at the start of the<br />

period (from 513 762 donations <strong>in</strong> 2000 to 503 247 <strong>in</strong> 2003 and the strong growth (+<br />

4.7%) <strong>in</strong> 2004. S<strong>in</strong>ce then, the number of donations fell aga<strong>in</strong> before recover<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> 2008.<br />

Compar<strong>in</strong>g the trend <strong>in</strong> the <strong>French</strong>-speak<strong>in</strong>g section of the Red Cross (SFS) <strong>with</strong> that of<br />

the Dutch-speak<strong>in</strong>g section (VDB), we f<strong>in</strong>d a contrast<strong>in</strong>g situation result<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> stability<br />

from a reduction of more than 11 000 units for the VDB offset by a r<strong>is</strong>e of almost<br />

11 000 units for the SFS, which <strong>is</strong> partially artificial as it follows the <strong>in</strong>tegration of two<br />

<strong>in</strong>dependent centres by the SFS (the transfusion centre <strong>in</strong> Brussels <strong>in</strong> 2003 and the<br />

Hust<strong>in</strong> centre <strong>in</strong> 2004) <strong>in</strong> the SFS activities. As for the number of plasmapheres<strong>is</strong><br />

donations, the trend <strong>is</strong> clearly downwards, -56% for the VDB and -63% for the SFS over<br />

the period <strong>in</strong> question as a whole. It seems that the drop <strong>in</strong> the number of donations of<br />

source plasma <strong>is</strong> l<strong>in</strong>ked to the closure of plasmapheres<strong>is</strong> centres. Globally, the number<br />

of donors <strong>is</strong> quite stable dur<strong>in</strong>g the last three years (+ 2%), result<strong>in</strong>g from a comb<strong>in</strong>ation<br />

of a decreas<strong>in</strong>g for the VDB (-1.5%) and a substantial <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g for the SFS (+9%).<br />

Table 1: Number of donations collected by SFS and VDB and number of<br />

donors<br />

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008<br />

Number of donations whole<br />

blood SFS 162.101 155.083 151.835 159.083 173.602 167.902 161.499 162.474 173.083<br />

Number of donations whole<br />

blood VDB 351.661 346.036 344.370 344.145 353.337 353.017 349.483 337.246 340.237<br />

Total number of donations<br />

whole blood 513.762 501.119 496.205 503.228 526.939 520.919 510.982 499.720 513.320<br />

Number of donations<br />

plasmapheres<strong>is</strong> SFS 44.569 44.515 37.791 36.106 34.691 20.538 17.013 17.021 16.315<br />

Number of donations<br />

plasmapheres<strong>is</strong> VDB 122.518 120.653 128.727 118.700 115.898 100.654 72.167 60.962 53.568<br />

Total number of donations<br />

plasmapheres<strong>is</strong> 167.087 165.168 166.518 154.806 150.589 121.192 89.180 77.983 69.883<br />

Number of donations<br />

cytapheres<strong>is</strong> SFS 10.776 10.155 9.994 9.995 12.066 11.921 10.293 8.861 8.582<br />

Number of donations<br />

cytapheres<strong>is</strong> VDB 7.768 8.623 8.884 7.403 13.662 13.489 12.512 13.107 13.164<br />

Total number of donations<br />

cytapheres<strong>is</strong> 18.544 18.778 18.878 17.398 25.728 25.410 22.805 21.968 21.746<br />

Number of donors whole blood<br />

SFS 91.422 91.009 98.953 89.767 85.654 82.972 80.628 82.353 87.875<br />

Number of donors whole blood<br />

VDB 160.048 158.901 156.684 155.992 155.881 153.508 156.810 150.187 154.426<br />

Total number of donors whole<br />

blood 251.470 249.910 255.637 245.759 241.535 236.480 237.438 232.540 242.301<br />

Source : SFS & VDB

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