Bulgarians queue to donate blood for Trakia motorway crash victims

Blood donation campaigns are under way across Bulgaria to help those injured in the two pile-ups on the Trakia motorway on 10 November, which killed 11 people and left 51 hospitalised.

Queues formed early in the morning outside the National Centre for Transfusion Haematology in Sofia, with dozens coming forward to donate, Bulgarian National Television reported.

People also queued outside the Regional Centre for Transfusion Haematology in Plovdiv. Most had learned of the appeal on social media, BNR Plovdiv’s Dimitar Vladimirov reported.

More than 100 people donated on the first day of the campaign at Burgas University Hospital. The hospital has extended its blood donation unit’s opening hours until 7 p.m. each day for the rest of the working week, BNR Burgas reported.

Donations are also being collected elsewhere in the region, including at the Prosveta 1888 community cultural centre in Pomorie.

• Day of national mourning for victims of tragic crashes on Trakia Motorway
• At least 11 dead, dozens injured in Bulgarian motorway pile-up
  
  

Editor: Miglena Ivanova