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Brief Report

PIGI ZOIS: Pioneering with Credibility

by
Vasilios Perifanis
1,*,
Ourania Pantelidou
2,
Nousiou Charikleia
3,
Miranda Athanassiou-Metaxa
4 and
Electra Kolokytha-Grammatikopoulou
5
1
Assistant Professor of Hematology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University, Secretary General of PIGI ZOIS, Greece
2
Professor of Endodontology, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University, Vice-president of PIGI ZOIS, Greece
3
Accountant, Treasurer of PIGI ZOIS, Greece
4
Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Honorary President of PIGI ZOIS, Greece
5
Dentist, President of PIGI ZOIS, Thessaloniki, Greece
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Thalass. Rep. 2018, 8(1), 7492; https://doi.org/10.4081/thal.2018.7492
Submission received: 10 April 2018 / Revised: 10 April 2018 / Accepted: 10 April 2018 / Published: 18 April 2018

Abstract

Annual transfusion requirements in Greece exceed 600000 blood units and nearly 20% of them are used for the transfusion of 3.000 patients with Thalassemia. Thalassemia patients need to be transfused properly at the right time and with safe, fresh blood. PIGI ZOIS is a nonprofit organization that tries to improve the lives of patients through providing proper voluntary blood units to patients and enhancing the Voluntary Blood Donation policy, in Thessaloniki area, which has 350 patients. The mission of PIGI ZOIS is to organize and manage almost 7.000 volunteers to donate their blood for the thalassemic patients. This is achieved by using a phone call reminder, so that the blood volunteer will donate his/her blood to a compatible young patient. All matches are done by a specialized computer program. PIGI ZOIS has donated 90.000 blood units over a period of twenty years. PIGI ZOIS also aims to raise awareness of Thalassemia through an educational program with children in primary schools, with the ultimate goal of encouraging the children to become donors when they reach adulthood. PIGI ZOIS also runs informative campaigns to the public about disease prevention and the general promotion of voluntary blood donation.

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Perifanis, V.; Pantelidou, O.; Charikleia, N.; Athanassiou-Metaxa, M.; Kolokytha-Grammatikopoulou, E. PIGI ZOIS: Pioneering with Credibility. Thalass. Rep. 2018, 8, 7492. https://doi.org/10.4081/thal.2018.7492

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Perifanis V, Pantelidou O, Charikleia N, Athanassiou-Metaxa M, Kolokytha-Grammatikopoulou E. PIGI ZOIS: Pioneering with Credibility. Thalassemia Reports. 2018; 8(1):7492. https://doi.org/10.4081/thal.2018.7492

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Perifanis, Vasilios, Ourania Pantelidou, Nousiou Charikleia, Miranda Athanassiou-Metaxa, and Electra Kolokytha-Grammatikopoulou. 2018. "PIGI ZOIS: Pioneering with Credibility" Thalassemia Reports 8, no. 1: 7492. https://doi.org/10.4081/thal.2018.7492

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