More than 8,300 citizens have come to donate blood at the different points set up in the Community of Madrid after the train accident registered this Wednesday in Urda (Toledo), according to the latest balance released by the Ministry of Health.
The call from the Transfusion Center of the Community of Madrid received a very high response from the first moment, so the health authorities have asked to maintain collaboration during the coming days, with the aim of continuing to guarantee reserves and also attend to the victims who need it.
The urgent donation request was directed to groups 0+, 0-, A+, A- and B-, after the magnitude of the accident became known, considered the second most serious in recent history after Angrois.
More than a hundred injured in Madrid hospitals
In parallel, Madrid hospitals have treated a total of 104 injured passengers in the train accident, of whom four remain admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), according to the balance provided by the regional government this Friday.
These four people remain in the ICU of the 12 de Octubre, Getafe, La Paz and Ramón y Cajal hospitals, according to official information.
All of the injured have received assistance at the hospitals La Paz, 12 de Octubre, Getafe, Puerta de Hierro, La Princesa, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Hospital del Henares, Hospital del Tajo, Hospital de Fuenlabrada, Hospital de Torrejón, Hospital Rey Juan Carlos, Hospital Infanta Sofía, Hospital de Villalba, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Ramón y Cajal, Hospital de Alcorcón and Gómez Ulla.
Points enabled for blood donation
Donations have been made at the 32 fixed points enabled in Madrid hospitals, at the Valdebernardo Transfusion Center and in the Red Cross mobile units, which have joined the extraordinary device activated after the accident.