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As Jana Šrámková, head nurse at the Hořovice Hospital, explains, there are two registries of voluntary hematopoietic cell donors in the Czech Republic, which cooperate with approximately twenty blood donor centres from all over the country. "The two registries work closely together, as all efforts are focused on saving lives when searching for a suitable hematopoietic cell donor not only in the Czech Republic, but also abroad," says Šrámková.
However, those interested in joining the register do not have to be blood donors. If they are between 18 and 35 years old and feel healthy, they can come to the blood transfusion station on working days. There, they fill out a brief questionnaire and then have two tubes taken for a prescribed test. In the Czech Republic, every 200th citizen is registered as a bone marrow donor, and in Germany every 20th. Worldwide, there are approximately 19 million registered voluntary donors willing to help. "I must say that our donors are certainly not indifferent to someone else's illness. That is why they join the register. Of course, they must meet the prescribed conditions," adds head nurse Šrámková.
An example of the good will of donors is the recent visit of eight students from the Beroun Management Academy. "This is the fourth year that students from our school have come to the haematopoietic cell donor register in an organised manner," explains Professor Kerl, adding that he had recently visited the University Hospital in Pilsen with the students. "But after we learned that this possibility also exists in Hořovice, we preferred the local hospital," says the teacher.
