What benefits are available to a donor in Belarus? Rights, guarantees and benefits for employees who are donors. Labor Code of the Republic of Belarus

Honorary Donor of the Republic of Belarus is a badge and honorary title for those who have made a worthy contribution to the development of voluntary donation.

Donation procedure

After the first donation, the blood is quarantined for six months. During this period, anyone who wants to become a donor must donate it again to rule out infection.

If no contraindications are identified, you can choose a day and go to the nearest collection point. At the same time, at least 3 days before donation, it is prohibited to take:

• aspirin;
• painkillers;
• alcohol.

On the eve of the test, it is not recommended to eat salty foods, fatty or spicy foods, or dairy products. You should not smoke immediately before donation. The optimal time for donation is before 11 a.m., so the body can cope with the procedure more easily.

Donation may vary depending on what you donate: blood or its components. In the first case, 450 ml of blood is taken from a vein. In the second, plasma and platelets are separated from it, and then returned to the vein. Before infusion back, it is diluted with saline solution, which helps normalize the pressure.

Men are allowed to donate blood no more than once every 2 months. For women, a longer period is established - 3 months. Components can be donated every two weeks, but after 4-6 donations it is necessary to take a month’s break.

What does a donor have the right to?

According to the legislation of the Republic of Belarus, all donors, regardless of status (working, non-working, student, employee) are given the right to:

1. Issuance of free food on the day of collection (financial compensation is possible at the established rate).
2. Receiving monetary rewards (paid donation).
3. Compensation for personal injury. If the donor becomes disabled, then his disability is equivalent to a professional injury (received in the performance of his work duties).

Working citizens are exempt from work on the day of blood donation, provided that they notify the employer in a timely manner (3 days in advance). In this case, you must indicate the date of donation and the medical institution where the procedure will be performed.

If the employer is notified in a timely manner, the donor retains his average earnings on the day of donation. Also, the employer must provide his employee with an additional day off even if the blood was donated at holidays or during the holiday period (confirmation will be a certificate from the clinic). As additional compensation, men who donate blood at least five times a year, and women who donate blood 3 or more times during the same period, are paid sick leave in the amount of 100% of wages for any illness.

Students receive a 25% increase for three months after donating blood.

How to become an honorary donor

According to the established rules, every citizen over 18 years of age who does not have health problems can become an honorary donor. This requires:

• donate blood 20 times and plasma, leukocytes and platelets 40 times free of charge;
• You have to pay to donate blood 40 times and its components 80 times.

Benefits for honorary donors

In addition to the moral satisfaction that donated blood or its components can save someone’s life, honorary donors in the Republic of Belarus receive a number of benefits, including:

1. Out-of-turn service in hospitals and clinics across the country.
2. Priority when purchasing tickets for any type of transport.
3. The ability to choose the most convenient time for vacation.
4. Service in departmental healthcare organizations even after retirement (in which the donor received assistance while working at a particular enterprise).

Promotion minimum pension by age on average by 40%.

11:26 14.06.2019

Today is June 14th – World Blood Donor Day. The Ministry of Health is campaigning for Belarusians to donate blood for free, but so far almost everyone does it for money. The site looked at how much you can earn by donating blood and what benefits and bonuses are available for this.

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Additionally - days off and monetary compensation

You can donate blood once every two months. The body of a healthy person contains from 4.5 to 6 liters, so the donation rate is 450 ml - this is a maximum of 10%. As a rule, fainting occurs not from exsanguination, but for psychological reasons.

To be able to donate blood, you must weigh more than 55 kg and be in the age range “from 18 to 60”. You will need to get a certificate from the clinic and then take tests at the blood donation site. Those who have had tattoos or piercings or inserted implants within six months will not pass the commission.

If there are no problems, for 450 (+-50 ml) of blood donated you will receive 100.81 rubles.

In addition, the donor is entitled to two days off - one on the day of blood donation, and the second he can take at any time convenient for him. If blood donation is paid, then the donor (by presenting a salary certificate) for these two days off receives compensation based on the average daily earnings for each day.

If your income is 1056.9 rubles, then you will receive about 96 more rubles.

Donors studying full-time education can count on an additional payment of a modest 22.40 rubles.

Before donating blood, you will be given tea and cookies, and after that you will also receive compensation for food - 4.48 rubles. And 2.24 - for every hour spent in the delivery center.

How long does it take to take plasma?

The same small payments are also available to donors of plasma, which can be donated once every two weeks. But usually, donors who have donated blood regularly throughout the year and have no withdrawals are offered to move into this category.

For 450 (+-50 ml) of plasma donated by manual plasmapheresis, they pay 120.97 rubles. For two such doses - 141.13.

If you donate plasma using automatic plasmapheresis (there are few such centers in the country), then the fee is calculated based on the volume donated: for example, for 200 ml you will receive 114.25 rubles, for 300 ml - 120.97, for 400 - 127.69 , for 500 - 134.41 rubles.

Isoimmune donors receive even more - per dose (450 +/- 50 ml) - 179.22 rubles, for two - 257.63, and red blood cell donors (blood dose from 300 to 450 ml +/- 50 ml) - 324.83 rubles. But it’s not easy to be among them.

Again, paid plasma donors, like blood donors, are compensated for two days off in the amount of average daily earnings for each.

If you donate blood 20 times free of charge, or 40 times for a fee (plasma - 60 and 80, respectively), you will receive the title “Honorary Donor of the Republic of Belarus”.

Unlike Russian honorary donors, Belarusian benefits are few, but after retirement you will be paid an additional 40% of the minimum age pension every month. Now it is 22.40 rubles.

Text: Anton ZARUDNITSKY

By 2020, Belarus plans to switch to free blood donation. At the same time, when donating plasma and platelets, donors want to be given a choice: donate free of charge or receive monetary compensation after donation.

As of January 1, 2018, there were about 96 thousand blood donors in Belarus, of which about 65 thousand were honorary. Every fourth donation in the country in 2017 was free of charge, the number of such donations was in five recent years increased 16 times. Moreover, about 20% of all donors last year were people under 30 years of age.

Lyudmila Makarina-Kibak, Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Health, physical culture, family and youth policy, said that today a bill is being developed to amend the law on the donation of blood and its components. It is expected that it could be adopted by next summer. There have been no public discussions on the bill yet.

It is planned that blood donation will become completely free of charge, and when donating plasma and platelets, that is, blood components, a person can do this free of charge or with monetary compensation, but state support in this case will be minimal. At the same time, the number of guarantees for gratuitous donors will expand.

According to statistics, the country has the largest number of blood donors - about 85 thousand. There are about 11 thousand of those who donate blood components, namely plasma and platelets. That is, everyone who donates whole blood today, if the bill being developed comes into force, will donate it free of charge. This is exactly the kind of donation that is suggested by the recommendations of the World Health Organization: donors must be voluntary, free of charge and regular.

For example, today more than 92 rubles are given for one blood donation of about 450 ml. The donor also has two days off: one on the day of blood donation, the second can be taken on any other day. For paid donation, the center that collected the blood pays for these two days off based on the donor’s average daily earnings for each day. Donors are also provided with food.

If there is only free blood donation in Belarus, it is planned that the donor will also have the opportunity between blood donations to receive a set of products that will replenish energy costs, or, possibly, monetary compensation, which can only be spent on food in certain institutions.

— The purpose of the bill is to emphasize the importance of gratuitous donation. We provide for blood donation only on a free basis, but as part of this, the donor receives a certain package of social guarantees from the state. This is an exemption from work on the day of donation, free food before and after donation, and a new social guarantee - this is the replenishment of energy costs during the interdonation period. The issue will be resolved, but it will most likely be a certain set of products or, as in Russia, a choice: food or monetary compensation, which can only be spent on food in the relevant institutions. Our goal is for the donor to be a healthy person, blood donation should be comfortable and safe, it is, and in two months, for example, we are expecting the donor again with normal indicators,” he told reporters today Fedor Karpenko, director of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Transfusiology and Medical Biotechnology, chief freelance transfusiologist of the Ministry of Health.

If the donor plans to donate plasma and platelets with monetary compensation, then he will be provided with food only on the day of donation, and he will also be able not to go to work on that day.

According to Lyudmila Makarina-Kibak, it is planned that gratuitous donors will also be able to claim 100% sick pay from the first day. At the same time, according to Fyodor Karpenko, the bill assumes that only a gratuitous donor can become an honorary donor. Today, it can be a person who has donated blood 20 times or 40 times its components free of charge, or 40 times blood or 80 times its components - with monetary compensation.

It is also planned that the range of guarantees for the honorary donor will be expanded. He will be provided with medicines, sanatorium treatment and, perhaps, the issue of travel to work will be somehow resolved. The bill is still being discussed, so it is difficult to say for sure how exactly they want to support the honorary donor. At the same time, all the benefits that honorary donors have today will remain: vacation at any time of the year, extraordinary services in healthcare organizations and in those medical institutions where it is convenient for the honorary donor, an increase in the old-age pension in accordance with the law (40% of the minimum pension ), priority purchase of vouchers for sanatorium treatment and tickets for various types of transport.

“We call this a social package, we will be able to talk in more detail when the bill comes out for public discussion,” noted Lyudmila Makarina-Kibak.

According to Fyodor Karpenko, today Belarusians are motivated to donate blood by two factors. Firstly, the desire to help and save the life of another person. This is the motivation of 99% of donors. Secondly, donors are motivated by the guarantees and compensation they receive after donating blood. But it is precisely those who came to donate blood for altruistic reasons who have fewer blood marriages.

“It is believed that blood defects, the number of markers of transfusion-transmissible infection among unpaid donors, who are motivated specifically to come not for monetary compensation, but with altruism to help someone, are several times smaller compared to paid donors,” said Fedor Karpenko.

Everyone will be able to donate blood for free on June 13 at the Galleria Minsk shopping center from 15.00 to 19.00. There will be an action “Think about others. Donate blood. Share your life!

In 2011, the total number of blood donations per thousand inhabitants in Belarus was 38.2. European standard - 40.

But there is no need for additional blood and its components in the country now. The director of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Transfusiology and Medical Biotechnology told reporters about this. Gennady Khulup. An irreducible supply of blood components and medicines made from it has been created and maintained in Belarus.

Meanwhile, at the end of May in Belarus, people exchanged rare blood for a child. Gennady Khulup said that he also received an SMS about the need for urgent help for the child. " This is an unacceptable fact for us (false messages about the need for donor blood. - TUT.BY). Someone played on the kindest feelings of the people. We checked that on that day there were approximately 11 doses of the specified blood available, the next day - 16 doses.". Gennady Yakovlevich noted that all the necessary blood can be ordered and selected in the required combination at any time: “There are supplies on both weekends and weekdays.”

The director of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center said that such a search for blood is in principle unacceptable. Therefore, the next time someone receives this kind of message, you can delete it without a twinge of conscience.

The country produces over 190 thousand liters of blood per year and more than 90 thousand liters of plasma. Thus, the needs of all healthcare institutions are met. Today, blood received from donors is used to help those in need of blood and to produce medicines from its components. 100% of the collected blood goes to meet the needs within Belarus.

By the way, in the near future it is planned to build a Plasma Processing Center (two investors have now been identified for the project). After its construction, perhaps, Gennady Khulup noted, the surplus harvested materials will be exported.

Donor - who is he?

There are 79,896 blood donors and 10,957 plasma donors in the country. The average age of a blood donor today is 41-50 years, a plasma donor is 31-40. More than 50% of those who donate blood are working people; the majority of those who donate plasma are people with higher education.

Any capable person aged 18-60 years living in Belarus can become a donor. In Western countries, older people (75-80 years old) also donate blood, but in our country, notes the Deputy Director of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Transfusiology Sergei Leshchuk, there is no such need.

By the way, career donors are most valued - those who donate blood on an ongoing basis - dozens of times.

Being a donor is useful

It turns out that donating blood is not only noble, but also beneficial for the person who does it. " There are always two global processes going on in our body. - birth and death of cells"- says Sergei Leshchuk . Donating blood helps the body renew it. Studies conducted in Scandinavia have shown that regular donors have increased immunity. They have a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, as well as heart attacks and strokes. “The donors, of course, look younger,”- noted Gennady Khulup.

Of course, a donor is a healthy person: there are more than 50 absolute and over 30 relative contraindications for donating blood for its subsequent use. The donor monitors his health and undergoes regular examinations. After the 20th and 40th blood donation, control is carried out for hidden iron deficiency in the blood. In addition, being a donor today, notes Sergei Leshchuk, is safer than ever.

By the way, compensation for blood donation is 334 thousand rubles for donating blood, 468 thousand for donating plasma. These figures are based on the subsistence level budget, which today is 743,020 rubles.

Benefits for honorary donors

Honorary donors become after 40 blood donations and 80 plasma donations. The average number between donors is 100-250 blood donations. But there are also record holders. “There are 10 of them. These are those who made more than 500 blood donations and plasma donations. We call them deserved among ourselves,” says Sergei Leshchuk.

Honorary (and, of course, deserved) donors enjoy some benefits in Belarus. This is an extraordinary service in healthcare organizations, including after retirement. This is also an extraordinary purchase of tickets for all types of transport. Honorary donors can take work leave at any time convenient for them. Those of them who are now retired receive an increase of 74,300 Belarusian rubles.

Donors who have been issued the sign “Honorary Donor of the Republic of Belarus” are provided with the following guarantees:

extraordinary services in public health care institutions;

upon retirement receiving medical care in departmental healthcare organizations in which they were served before retirement, unless otherwise provided by the legislative acts of the Republic of Belarus;

labor leave (vacation) in summer or other convenient time;

priority purchase of tickets for rail, air, water, and road transport;

increase in pension upon reaching the generally established retirement age in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on pension provision.

Donors awarded the badges "Honorary Donor of the USSR" and "Honorary Donor of the Red Cross Society of the BSSR" enjoy all the guarantees provided to donors who have the badge "Honorary Donor of the Republic of Belarus" (Parts 9-10 of Article 31 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On Blood Donation" and its components").

According to subparagraph 1.15, paragraph 1, article 10 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated June 14, 2007 N 239-Z “On state social benefits, rights and guarantees for certain categories of citizens, citizens suffering from diseases included in a special list approved by the Government of the Republic of Belarus have the right to free provision of medicines issued according to doctors’ prescriptions within the list of essential medicines in the manner determined by the Government of the Republic of Belarus, - at outpatient treatment.

The list of diseases that give citizens the right to free provision of medicines issued according to doctors’ prescriptions within the list of essential medicines for outpatient treatment, as well as medical nutrition, was approved by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on November 30, 2007 N 1650 “On some issues of free and preferential provision of medicines and dressings to certain categories of citizens."

The list of essential medicines was approved by Resolution of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus on July 16, 2007 N 65 “On approval of the list of essential medicines”.

The right to a 90 percent discount on the cost of medicines issued according to doctors' prescriptions within the list of essential medicines, and for surgical diseases - also dressings (if there is an appropriate medical certificate) in the manner determined by the Government of the Republic of Belarus, are citizens who are sick and survivors of radiation sickness caused by the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, other radiation accidents, as well as disabled people of groups I and II, except for persons whose disability occurred as a result of illegal actions, due to alcohol, drug, toxic intoxication, self-harm (clause 2 of Art. 10 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus of June 14, 2007 N 239-Z “On state social benefits, rights and guarantees for certain categories of citizens”).