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th It is a great pleasure for me to open the jubilee 25
International Symposium on Blood Transfusion here in Groningen.
This symposium is co-sponsored by the World Health Organization and
is being held under the auspices of the ISBT and the Secretary
General of the Council of Europe, Mr Walter Schwimmer. The
patronage was granted with great pleasure for several reasons.
First of all, Dutch experts are very active in our Committees and
have largely contributed in developing the Council of Europe
principles in the blood area. Secondly, the Council of Europe is
active today in the area of blood transfusion due to a tragic
event, which occurred in 1953 in the Netherlands; following a
flooding many of the blood products given for assistance' could not
be used due to incompatibilities and differences in labelling. Some
words to present the Council of Europe since the organisation is
sometimes confused with institutions ofthe European Union: The
organisation has been founded in 1949 to establish the principles
of democracy and rule of law all over Europe. Since 1989, the year
of the fall of the Berlin wall and the opening up of the iron
curtain, these principles could be extended to the countries of
Central and Eastern Europe. Today this makes the Council of Europe
the only pan-European organisation with 41 Member States thus
representing more than 750 million people.
The provocative title stems from the recent International Blood
Transfusion Symposium in Groningen, The Netherlands held under the
auspicies of the World Health Organization (WHO), International
Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) and Council of Europe (CoE).
Transfusion medicine is a new discipline which has a wide remit. As
defined recently, transfusion medicine deals with that part of the
healthcare system which undertakes appropriate provision and use of
human blood resources; transfusion practice is therefore a
collective activity linking the blood donor with the patient.
Transfusion medicine occupies areas in which it is deemed to be
important or even essential that medical practitioners contribute
to this bridging process. The broad issues and complex practices
are presented in the masterly Introduction by the WHO's Assistant
Director General with emphasis on education and multidisciplinary
facets involving transfusion medicine. The challenging subjects are
dealt in great details with a wealth of personal experience by 24
experts from the U.K., France, The Netherlands, U.S.A., Australia,
Germany, Sweden, WHO and the Council of Europe.This is a
comprehensive yet concise state of the art presentation involving
donor and delivery system, ethics and legal elements, effects of
modern techniques, importance of management and the future
directions in this new economic environment. The book has been
divided into four sections which discuss both the facts and the
fiction.
th It is a great pleasure for me to open the jubilee 25
International Symposium on Blood Transfusion here in Groningen.
This symposium is co-sponsored by the World Health Organization and
is being held under the auspices of the ISBT and the Secretary
General of the Council of Europe, Mr Walter Schwimmer. The
patronage was granted with great pleasure for several reasons.
First of all, Dutch experts are very active in our Committees and
have largely contributed in developing the Council of Europe
principles in the blood area. Secondly, the Council of Europe is
active today in the area of blood transfusion due to a tragic
event, which occurred in 1953 in the Netherlands; following a
flooding many of the blood products given for assistance' could not
be used due to incompatibilities and differences in labelling. Some
words to present the Council of Europe since the organisation is
sometimes confused with institutions ofthe European Union: The
organisation has been founded in 1949 to establish the principles
of democracy and rule of law all over Europe. Since 1989, the year
of the fall of the Berlin wall and the opening up of the iron
curtain, these principles could be extended to the countries of
Central and Eastern Europe. Today this makes the Council of Europe
the only pan-European organisation with 41 Member States thus
representing more than 750 million people.
The provocative title stems from the recent International Blood
Transfusion Symposium in Groningen, The Netherlands held under the
auspicies of the World Health Organization (WHO), International
Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) and Council of Europe (CoE).
Transfusion medicine is a new discipline which has a wide remit. As
defined recently, transfusion medicine deals with that part of the
healthcare system which undertakes appropriate provision and use of
human blood resources; transfusion practice is therefore a
collective activity linking the blood donor with the patient.
Transfusion medicine occupies areas in which it is deemed to be
important or even essential that medical practitioners contribute
to this bridging process. The broad issues and complex practices
are presented in the masterly Introduction by the WHO's Assistant
Director General with emphasis on education and multidisciplinary
facets involving transfusion medicine. The challenging subjects are
dealt in great details with a wealth of personal experience by 24
experts from the U.K., France, The Netherlands, U.S.A., Australia,
Germany, Sweden, WHO and the Council of Europe. This is a
comprehensive yet concise state of the art presentation involving
donor and delivery system, ethics and legal elements, effects of
modern techniques, importance of management and the future
directions in this new economic environment. The book has been
divided into four sections which discuss both the facts and the
fiction.
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