Colsan - Associação Beneficente de Coleta de Sangue

About Colsan - Associação Beneficente de Coleta de Sangue

Colsan is a non-profit Charitable Organization that operates in the field of hemotherapy, promoting donor recruitment, blood collection, analysis, and processing, and subsequently the distribution of blood components, as well as pre-transfusion procedures. It was founded in August 1959 by Dr. Othon Barcellos, along with a group of friends, whose objective was to provide a service to the community by meeting blood needs free of charge, according to the minutes signed by the President of the Republic, Juscelino Kubitschek. VISION: To be a center of excellence, nationally, in the field of hemotherapy. MISSION: To cooperate in solving the problem of blood shortages in public and philanthropic hospitals, by promoting the collection, processing, distribution, and transfusion of blood and its derivatives. Stimulate scientific research in the health field, as well as collaborate with the teaching activities of UNIFESP.