Ci siamo appena trasferiti qui, non parlano ancora molto tedesco, ma abbiamo sentito parlare della carenza di sangue e come famiglia di O negativi pensava che avremmo fatto la nostra parte. Poi si è imbattuto in questo.
Questo sembra completamente piccolo e generalmente pazzo considerando che viviamo in un’epoca di app di traduzione eccellenti e la maggior parte dei medici parla inglese. E anche se non lo hanno fatto, posso superare praticamente qualsiasi cosa con Deepl.
Un requisito di fluidità sta sicuramente bloccando molti potenziali donatori in un paese con molti immigrati. In quanto professionista medico, capisco perfettamente il consenso informato, ma sono riuscito a lavorare con molti pazienti nel mio paese di origine che non parlavano una parola inglese e hanno avuto grandi risultati.
Se la carenza di sangue è tanto critica come si suol dire, sollevandolo e raggiungendo gli immigrati e avere una donazione di sangue in aree pesanti immigrate farebbero sicuramente molto per alleviarlo.
Pensieri?
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di BritnBayern
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Indeed absolutely brainless
Welcome to Austria 😂
Well, a small oversight could have a big impact.
So sort of makes sense
I’m guessing it’s a legal requirement to ensure everyone is giving informed consent, but I agree it seems rather inflexible.
I understand the frustration. I’m type O and would love to donate, but I’m banned from donating in most countries (including Austria) because I spent the first 9 months of my life in the UK.
Brainless!
My employee speaks fluent English, but every walk to the Behörden take super long, what could be communicated in 30 seconds(in English). (1month in Austria) Dämliche Regelversessenheit….
>This seems completely small-minded
Welcome to Austria 🙂 You’ll find lots of small-minded stuff (and people) here, but don’t worry too much. It’s still a nice place to live.
Sadly, that regulation for blood donors is a pity and not even necessary, because most of the educated people here have decent English skills and would probably understand a description of your health status given in English language. This is just a stupid regulation (of which we also have lots of).
It’s a liability issue.
Nobody wants a “I didn’t understand what they meant by HIV, in my country it’s called vlsvleqüfsgnteogvtp and they didn’t ask me about that“ situation.
Maybe call the blood donation center in vienna (4th district). It’s been years since I’ve been there, because I don’t live in vienna anymore. But I am pretty sure there was an option for English.
That is stupid but … oh, there is a questionnaire now? Does that also cover “forbidden” travel destinations?
I stopped donating because I am travelling a lot … and three times in a row I was rejected because I was in a black-listed (but not very exotic) country before. When I was asking them if they could not publish this info on their website, they told me (10 years ago?) that that would be too much of an effort to update on a regular basis … ha, guess what they do with the weather forecast!
Well no wonder we have a shortage if so many people are excluded.
I myself can’t donate because I’m in psychotherapy and take medication (SNRI). If it was only the medication I could donate…
It’s getting really ridiculous at this point..
It’s dumb, but saying that most doctors speak English is as dumb to be honest. No they don’t, atleast not on a level that is required for things like this.
And even if they did, usually a nurse takes your blood and their english is probably even worse than a doctors. Most of the time its maybe 1 doctor for every 10 nurses.
English speaking levels in Austria are very different across ages and locations.
wow wtf
The blood situation is short but not short enough not to discriminate against foreigners /s
[https://techharbor.at/en/news/post/blut-kennt-keine-sprache](https://techharbor.at/en/news/post/blut-kennt-keine-sprache)
Apparently digital mile (a group of tech companies mostly in the harbor area of Linz) managed to have a bilingual blood drive earlier this year. Not sure if there are plans to spread this approach, but there’s a [contact form](https://digital-mile.at/en/kontakt/).
If you happen to be in or near Linz, the next bilingual blood drive will be in fall (don’t know when exactly yet).
It’s good. See, it also filters out stupid people, who, for example, don’t understand why this rule is important.
I am an immigrant too. And a regular blood donor.
Just in 2022, Austria stopped the full blood donation ban from the Queer community. “Small-minded” is still a nice way to frame it.