DONOR Foundation, was founded on the initiative of mr. Stan Jesmiatka, M.D., Bart van Straten, M.B.a., M.I.T. and mr. Wil Wouters.
They achieve their goals by:
- Donating these units free of charge
- Supplying financial support to selected research projects
- Sending people to various countries to inform local hospitals about these possibilities
A fixed contribution is transferred to the Foundation from every DONOR system sold world-wide. Furthermore, the DONOR Foundation, has several contributing sponsors.
A new project will be launched shortly to donate more than 400 DONOR systems, free-of-charge, to state hospitals. This project will be initiated end of 2010 and in 2011.
DONOR Foundation giving DONOR systems to Tygerberg hospital, South Africa, in 2008.
During an official handing over ceremony on February 26, 2008, a representative of the DONOR Foundation handed over 100 DONOR Autologous Reinfusion Systems to the Tygerberg Hospital.
The hospital has approximately 100 Total Knee procedures per year. The systems stimulate new measures of preventing the transmission of blood transfusion diseases by blood transfusions and stimulate the development of blood saving devices for both emergency and operating theatre cases.
These systems will be used in combination with total knee replacement surgery, where patient’s would alternatively have received potentially contaminated blood bank blood, now allowing for the return of their own blood following this type of surgery. With the ever present danger of transmittable diseases through blood bank blood and the shortage of bank blood, The DONOR system is a unique disposable system to recycle the patient’s own blood after surgery, thus avoiding the said dangers. The DONOR system is considered by many, as a break through in the growing global blood problem. Bank blood stock, is not only decreasing rapidly due to lack of donors it also gets further contaminated with new and unknown diseases. Transfusion-transmitted diseases through bank blood are an ever-growing global problem, in developing countries as well as in the western world. HIV, Creutzfeld-Jacob, Hepatitis B, C, Malaria and the West Nile virus are examples and often lead to chaotic circumstances when needed for patients. A number of hospitals in South Africa, as well as a growing number of hospitals globally are using the, DONOR System, to prevent virus contamination, allow for quicker wound healing, thus shortened hospital stay, but moreover, it saves high costs associated with bank blood.
DONOR Foundation, was founded on the initiative of Stan Jesmiatka, M.D., mr. Wil Wouters and Bart van Straten, M.B.A., M.I.T.
They achieve their goals by:
Donating these units free of charge
Supplying financial support to selected research projects
Sending people to various countries to inform local hospitals about these possibilities.
DONOR Foundation, has several contributing sponsors but is continuously looking for gifts.
The Reinfusion Devices
Instructions to the Doctors
Handing over the cheque
Tygerberg medical university center
Photo shooting with the African community in The Hague in the Roman Catholic Church of Our Saviour. The R.C. Church and the DONOR foundation organize the Benefit Gala event in ‘de Witte’ on Friday 6 June
On Friday 6 June the DONOR Foundation organizes a benefit gala in Societet de Witte in co-operation with the R.C. Church of our Saviour in The Hague. The main objective of the gala is to raise funds for various benificiaries supported by the hosts.
The systems are donated to the DONOR Foundation against the lowest possible costs by Van Straten Medical, manufacturer of the system.
