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More donors means more saved lives: Sibur-Khimprom hosted a lecture promoting bone marrow donations

22 february 2024

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She explained that by transplanting bone marrow cells from a compatible donor one can hope to cure lethal and severe diseases when medicines or other types of therapy turn out to be ineffective. Only a living individual can provide such cells as they cannot be produced artificially. The discussion further dwelled on the practical aspects of bone marrow donation and on the procedure of getting entered in the donors’ register. To be entered in the register the applicant has to meet certain standards, including such requirements as age (the individual has to be between 18 and 45 old), weight (at least 50 kg) and, which is equally important, absence of any contraindications. </p> <p> <b>Maxim Lenkov, director general of Sibur-Khimprom: </b><br> <i>"Sibur-Khimprom’s employees were the first in our company to join the National Register of Bone Marrow Donors. We were delighted to start the succession of good deeds in the year 2024 with this useful discussion. I would like to thank everyone who responded to our call and found time in their work schedule to focus on this obviously important topic! I hope that this meeting will inspire some of its attendees to join the register, which would mean greater chances of survival for those who need our help."</i> </p> <p> The Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors was set up and is being maintained by the <i>Rusfond</i> Charitable Foundation with the support of regional partner foundations. The Register is a large-scale information system containing data about volunteers who are ready, if necessary, to come to the rescue of severely ill individuals by donating some of their hematopoietic cells. As of the end of 2023, there were 91,019 potential donors in the National Register, including more than a hundred SIBUR employees from Blagoveshchensk (Republic of Bashkortostan), Voronezh, Moscow, Perm, Tobolsk, and Tomsk. </p> <p> <b>Evgenia Lobacheva, head of the center for attracting donors at the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors: </b><br> <i>"It's wonderful that increasingly more of SIBUR’s employees have been showing interest in becoming bone marrow donors. At our lectures and donorship campaigns, we are more used to seeing mostly young women volunteering to sign up, but at our meeting in Perm today we were pleasantly surprised to see that most of the volunteers who joined the register after the meeting turned out to be young males. They are the ones that our register needs the most, and there is never enough of them! The friendly and caring ambience that has been created at the company is something you feel right after stepping over its doorstep, and the potential for seeing the number of new donors growing further is tremendous. We are confident that many more of your caring colleagues might choose to join the register in the near future!"</i> </p> <p> After the lecture, anyone who wished to do so could undergo the HLA typing and matching procedure that involves getting swabbed to get one’s data entered in the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors. </p> <p> <b>Anna Balueva, lead engineer at Sibur-Khimprom: </b><br> <i>"I had heard about bone marrow donation before, but I still had a lot of lingering questions. How does the database work? Who needs to be helped? Who can be a donor? At today's lecture, I was able to get detailed answers to all my questions. The only thing that sounds scary is the procedure itself, but I think it's a minor inconvenience compared to offering another person a chance to live. And of course, I filled out the questionnaire to be entered into the donors’ register."</i> </p> <p> <b>Evgeny Falov, head of the technical supervision department at Sibur-Khimprom: </b><br> <i>"Finally, someone explained and showed me in an easy-to-understand form what bone marrow is and what it does and why and where bone marrow donors are needed! My colleagues sat through the lecture, internalized this information and went on to get tested for eligibility to join the donors’ register! I myself have been on the register for 6 years already! I hope that someday I will get a chance to help save somebody else’s life!"</i> </p> [TYPE] => HTML ) [DESCRIPTION] => [~VALUE] => Array ( [TEXT] =>

On Tuesday, February 20, Sibur-Khimprom’s grand auditorium in Perm hosted a meeting with Evgenia Lobacheva, head of the center for attracting donors at the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors (the NRBMD). The gathering was sponsored by SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program.

In her opening remarks, Ms. Lobacheva highlighted the importance of donorship. She explained that by transplanting bone marrow cells from a compatible donor one can hope to cure lethal and severe diseases when medicines or other types of therapy turn out to be ineffective. Only a living individual can provide such cells as they cannot be produced artificially. The discussion further dwelled on the practical aspects of bone marrow donation and on the procedure of getting entered in the donors’ register. To be entered in the register the applicant has to meet certain standards, including such requirements as age (the individual has to be between 18 and 45 old), weight (at least 50 kg) and, which is equally important, absence of any contraindications.

Maxim Lenkov, director general of Sibur-Khimprom:
"Sibur-Khimprom’s employees were the first in our company to join the National Register of Bone Marrow Donors. We were delighted to start the succession of good deeds in the year 2024 with this useful discussion. I would like to thank everyone who responded to our call and found time in their work schedule to focus on this obviously important topic! I hope that this meeting will inspire some of its attendees to join the register, which would mean greater chances of survival for those who need our help."

The Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors was set up and is being maintained by the Rusfond Charitable Foundation with the support of regional partner foundations. The Register is a large-scale information system containing data about volunteers who are ready, if necessary, to come to the rescue of severely ill individuals by donating some of their hematopoietic cells. As of the end of 2023, there were 91,019 potential donors in the National Register, including more than a hundred SIBUR employees from Blagoveshchensk (Republic of Bashkortostan), Voronezh, Moscow, Perm, Tobolsk, and Tomsk.

Evgenia Lobacheva, head of the center for attracting donors at the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors:
"It's wonderful that increasingly more of SIBUR’s employees have been showing interest in becoming bone marrow donors. At our lectures and donorship campaigns, we are more used to seeing mostly young women volunteering to sign up, but at our meeting in Perm today we were pleasantly surprised to see that most of the volunteers who joined the register after the meeting turned out to be young males. They are the ones that our register needs the most, and there is never enough of them! The friendly and caring ambience that has been created at the company is something you feel right after stepping over its doorstep, and the potential for seeing the number of new donors growing further is tremendous. We are confident that many more of your caring colleagues might choose to join the register in the near future!"

After the lecture, anyone who wished to do so could undergo the HLA typing and matching procedure that involves getting swabbed to get one’s data entered in the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors.

Anna Balueva, lead engineer at Sibur-Khimprom:
"I had heard about bone marrow donation before, but I still had a lot of lingering questions. How does the database work? Who needs to be helped? Who can be a donor? At today's lecture, I was able to get detailed answers to all my questions. The only thing that sounds scary is the procedure itself, but I think it's a minor inconvenience compared to offering another person a chance to live. And of course, I filled out the questionnaire to be entered into the donors’ register."

Evgeny Falov, head of the technical supervision department at Sibur-Khimprom:
"Finally, someone explained and showed me in an easy-to-understand form what bone marrow is and what it does and why and where bone marrow donors are needed! My colleagues sat through the lecture, internalized this information and went on to get tested for eligibility to join the donors’ register! I myself have been on the register for 6 years already! I hope that someday I will get a chance to help save somebody else’s life!"

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On Tuesday, February 20, Sibur-Khimprom’s grand auditorium in Perm hosted a meeting with Evgenia Lobacheva, head of the center for attracting donors at the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors (the NRBMD). The gathering was sponsored by SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program.

In her opening remarks, Ms. Lobacheva highlighted the importance of donorship. She explained that by transplanting bone marrow cells from a compatible donor one can hope to cure lethal and severe diseases when medicines or other types of therapy turn out to be ineffective. Only a living individual can provide such cells as they cannot be produced artificially. The discussion further dwelled on the practical aspects of bone marrow donation and on the procedure of getting entered in the donors’ register. To be entered in the register the applicant has to meet certain standards, including such requirements as age (the individual has to be between 18 and 45 old), weight (at least 50 kg) and, which is equally important, absence of any contraindications.

Maxim Lenkov, director general of Sibur-Khimprom:
"Sibur-Khimprom’s employees were the first in our company to join the National Register of Bone Marrow Donors. We were delighted to start the succession of good deeds in the year 2024 with this useful discussion. I would like to thank everyone who responded to our call and found time in their work schedule to focus on this obviously important topic! I hope that this meeting will inspire some of its attendees to join the register, which would mean greater chances of survival for those who need our help."

The Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors was set up and is being maintained by the Rusfond Charitable Foundation with the support of regional partner foundations. The Register is a large-scale information system containing data about volunteers who are ready, if necessary, to come to the rescue of severely ill individuals by donating some of their hematopoietic cells. As of the end of 2023, there were 91,019 potential donors in the National Register, including more than a hundred SIBUR employees from Blagoveshchensk (Republic of Bashkortostan), Voronezh, Moscow, Perm, Tobolsk, and Tomsk.

Evgenia Lobacheva, head of the center for attracting donors at the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors:
"It's wonderful that increasingly more of SIBUR’s employees have been showing interest in becoming bone marrow donors. At our lectures and donorship campaigns, we are more used to seeing mostly young women volunteering to sign up, but at our meeting in Perm today we were pleasantly surprised to see that most of the volunteers who joined the register after the meeting turned out to be young males. They are the ones that our register needs the most, and there is never enough of them! The friendly and caring ambience that has been created at the company is something you feel right after stepping over its doorstep, and the potential for seeing the number of new donors growing further is tremendous. We are confident that many more of your caring colleagues might choose to join the register in the near future!"

After the lecture, anyone who wished to do so could undergo the HLA typing and matching procedure that involves getting swabbed to get one’s data entered in the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors.

Anna Balueva, lead engineer at Sibur-Khimprom:
"I had heard about bone marrow donation before, but I still had a lot of lingering questions. How does the database work? Who needs to be helped? Who can be a donor? At today's lecture, I was able to get detailed answers to all my questions. The only thing that sounds scary is the procedure itself, but I think it's a minor inconvenience compared to offering another person a chance to live. And of course, I filled out the questionnaire to be entered into the donors’ register."

Evgeny Falov, head of the technical supervision department at Sibur-Khimprom:
"Finally, someone explained and showed me in an easy-to-understand form what bone marrow is and what it does and why and where bone marrow donors are needed! My colleagues sat through the lecture, internalized this information and went on to get tested for eligibility to join the donors’ register! I myself have been on the register for 6 years already! I hope that someday I will get a chance to help save somebody else’s life!"

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On Tuesday, February 20, Sibur-Khimprom’s grand auditorium in Perm hosted a meeting with Evgenia Lobacheva, head of the center for attracting donors at the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors (the NRBMD). The gathering was sponsored by SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program.

In her opening remarks, Ms. Lobacheva highlighted the importance of donorship. She explained that by transplanting bone marrow cells from a compatible donor one can hope to cure lethal and severe diseases when medicines or other types of therapy turn out to be ineffective. Only a living individual can provide such cells as they cannot be produced artificially. The discussion further dwelled on the practical aspects of bone marrow donation and on the procedure of getting entered in the donors’ register. To be entered in the register the applicant has to meet certain standards, including such requirements as age (the individual has to be between 18 and 45 old), weight (at least 50 kg) and, which is equally important, absence of any contraindications.

Maxim Lenkov, director general of Sibur-Khimprom:
"Sibur-Khimprom’s employees were the first in our company to join the National Register of Bone Marrow Donors. We were delighted to start the succession of good deeds in the year 2024 with this useful discussion. I would like to thank everyone who responded to our call and found time in their work schedule to focus on this obviously important topic! I hope that this meeting will inspire some of its attendees to join the register, which would mean greater chances of survival for those who need our help."

The Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors was set up and is being maintained by the Rusfond Charitable Foundation with the support of regional partner foundations. The Register is a large-scale information system containing data about volunteers who are ready, if necessary, to come to the rescue of severely ill individuals by donating some of their hematopoietic cells. As of the end of 2023, there were 91,019 potential donors in the National Register, including more than a hundred SIBUR employees from Blagoveshchensk (Republic of Bashkortostan), Voronezh, Moscow, Perm, Tobolsk, and Tomsk.

Evgenia Lobacheva, head of the center for attracting donors at the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors:
"It's wonderful that increasingly more of SIBUR’s employees have been showing interest in becoming bone marrow donors. At our lectures and donorship campaigns, we are more used to seeing mostly young women volunteering to sign up, but at our meeting in Perm today we were pleasantly surprised to see that most of the volunteers who joined the register after the meeting turned out to be young males. They are the ones that our register needs the most, and there is never enough of them! The friendly and caring ambience that has been created at the company is something you feel right after stepping over its doorstep, and the potential for seeing the number of new donors growing further is tremendous. We are confident that many more of your caring colleagues might choose to join the register in the near future!"

After the lecture, anyone who wished to do so could undergo the HLA typing and matching procedure that involves getting swabbed to get one’s data entered in the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Register of Bone Marrow Donors.

Anna Balueva, lead engineer at Sibur-Khimprom:
"I had heard about bone marrow donation before, but I still had a lot of lingering questions. How does the database work? Who needs to be helped? Who can be a donor? At today's lecture, I was able to get detailed answers to all my questions. The only thing that sounds scary is the procedure itself, but I think it's a minor inconvenience compared to offering another person a chance to live. And of course, I filled out the questionnaire to be entered into the donors’ register."

Evgeny Falov, head of the technical supervision department at Sibur-Khimprom:
"Finally, someone explained and showed me in an easy-to-understand form what bone marrow is and what it does and why and where bone marrow donors are needed! My colleagues sat through the lecture, internalized this information and went on to get tested for eligibility to join the donors’ register! I myself have been on the register for 6 years already! I hope that someday I will get a chance to help save somebody else’s life!"