About blood donation
Roughly an hour of your day, most of it sitting down. Here is what to expect and how VitaDrop works out whether you are due.
Not medical advice
What happens on the day
- 1
Registration
Bring photo identification. You fill in a health questionnaire.
- 2
Screening
Staff check your haemoglobin, blood pressure and pulse, and go through your answers privately.
- 3
Donation
The draw itself takes about eight to ten minutes for whole blood. Apheresis donations take longer.
- 4
Rest
Fifteen minutes with a drink and a snack before you leave. Do not skip this part.
How often you can donate
There is no single universal answer, which is why VitaDrop stores intervals as editable rules rather than hard-coding one. These are the intervals this deployment currently applies:
- Double red cellsevery 168 days
- Plasmaevery 14 days
- Plateletsevery 14 days
- Whole bloodevery 90 days
General criteria
Donor age range
from 18 years · up to 65 years
Minimum haemoglobin
haemoglobin at least 12.5 g/dL
Minimum donor weight
at least 50 kg
Centres also screen for recent illness, medication, travel, tattoos and pregnancy. Those judgements are made in person, not by this app.
What VitaDrop does with your data
Your location
Sharing it is opt-in and reversible. Others see a pin placed at random inside a radius you choose, never your address, and distances are measured from that fuzzed point.
Your health details
Haemoglobin and notes are optional, private to you and administrators, and never appear in search results, on the map, or in a donor card.
One donation can help up to three people.