Jose Manuel Paula, prison guard for 50 years, is champion in the donation of blood. This Friday, received a gold medal by 84 times which was the University Hospitals of extending the arm to help.
This prize, awarded the maximum, requires at least 60 donations (20 entitlement to a bronze medal and 40 the silver medal). But Jose Manuel already by far exceeded that number and does not stop. "The man should have a medal diamond!," Joked Jose Mario Gama, a social worker and responsible for the donation of blood of HUC, the visit to the Office of General Hematology that followed the ceremony.
This ensures not honored Tuesday with health care - "How and drink everything, sometimes smoking a cigarette" - and give blood every three months, since 1984. All because she wants to "do good to others." The high road accident rate, in particular, plays it, does it think about the large number of people who need transfusions. "At least over the last ten years, give blood, religiously, every three months. And have a normal life," confirmed José Mário Gama.
The award and certificate signed by Health Minister, Ana Jorge, were delivered by the Chairman of the Board of HUC. Fernando Jose Manuel Paula Regateiro praised for donations made over more than twenty years - "We are very grateful on behalf of patients who can deal with your blood" - and reiterated that "giving blood is a duty of citizenship."
Regateiro stressed on the need contributions from everyone, because "the blood is not manufactured, each one of us is a factory of blood." Recognition and fell to Jose Manuel, while stressing that gives blood without expecting anything in return. "I know that I am useful to others, so invisible," he said.
The prison guard from the prison of Coimbra is loath outcry about the condition of their regular donor: "I do not like to walk to the four winds to spread that I will donate blood." However, hopes to encourage more people, especially young people to participate. "Not to be heroes, but to be brothers of each other. A drop of blood can save a life. It's so simple: just get there and stretch my arm," he says.
As for fear of giving blood, Jose Manuel Paula joke: "There is no need to have problems with needles. People are even acupuncture." Moreover, the Department of General Hematology offers "VIP treatment", guaranteed. In January, plans to increase to 85 the number of donations.
This prize, awarded the maximum, requires at least 60 donations (20 entitlement to a bronze medal and 40 the silver medal). But Jose Manuel already by far exceeded that number and does not stop. "The man should have a medal diamond!," Joked Jose Mario Gama, a social worker and responsible for the donation of blood of HUC, the visit to the Office of General Hematology that followed the ceremony.
This ensures not honored Tuesday with health care - "How and drink everything, sometimes smoking a cigarette" - and give blood every three months, since 1984. All because she wants to "do good to others." The high road accident rate, in particular, plays it, does it think about the large number of people who need transfusions. "At least over the last ten years, give blood, religiously, every three months. And have a normal life," confirmed José Mário Gama.
The award and certificate signed by Health Minister, Ana Jorge, were delivered by the Chairman of the Board of HUC. Fernando Jose Manuel Paula Regateiro praised for donations made over more than twenty years - "We are very grateful on behalf of patients who can deal with your blood" - and reiterated that "giving blood is a duty of citizenship."
Regateiro stressed on the need contributions from everyone, because "the blood is not manufactured, each one of us is a factory of blood." Recognition and fell to Jose Manuel, while stressing that gives blood without expecting anything in return. "I know that I am useful to others, so invisible," he said.
The prison guard from the prison of Coimbra is loath outcry about the condition of their regular donor: "I do not like to walk to the four winds to spread that I will donate blood." However, hopes to encourage more people, especially young people to participate. "Not to be heroes, but to be brothers of each other. A drop of blood can save a life. It's so simple: just get there and stretch my arm," he says.
As for fear of giving blood, Jose Manuel Paula joke: "There is no need to have problems with needles. People are even acupuncture." Moreover, the Department of General Hematology offers "VIP treatment", guaranteed. In January, plans to increase to 85 the number of donations.
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