Interview with Svetlana Gubskaya

Mother of the many children from Samara gave 200 liters of immune plasma to save hundreds of children’s lives. The Blood Service of Samara region nominated Svetlana Gubskaya to participate in the regional public action «People’s recognition» in the nomination «Recognition and Respect» and asks for donor support in voting.

You can vote here: https://vk.com/yadonor_samara?w=wall-16905638_46315

The history of the donor’s life from the Samara region is truly unique and filled with unselfish love for all people around.

Svetlana was born on 21 February 1960. At the age of 16, she entered the Frunzen Garment Factory as a seamstress and after two years changed her career radically, going to the plant. She started working as a typist for a bridge crane at the age of 20. By the age of 22, she became a second-class welder at another company. It was a struggle to combine work with raising children, as she had five by 1990, and she was awarded the second degree medal of Motherhood.

In 1993, after the break-up of the USSR, Svetlana moved with her family to Samara in the village of Prosvet in the Volga region. She began working as a milkmaid in the local state farm «Samarsky» with the subsequent conferment of the title of master of animal husbandry. Two years later, two more twin daughters were born, and it was their birth that prompted Svetlana to start her donor path:

Svetlana Gubskaya: «28 years ago I had twin daughters, there was rhesus-conflict, and they both needed an exchange blood transfusion. They were saved only because of donors. I wanted to shout to the world how grateful I was for saving my children. A year after I came to the blood transfusion station and became a donor. Whatever I can do to thank you for saving my girls. May other mothers be happy that their children are well».

Svetlana Nikolayevna is a valuable donor of the immune plasma component. This component is used to produce a drug - an antirespiratory immunoglobulin, which is used to prevent hemolytic disease in newborns. Rhesus-conflict occurs when the mother’s blood has a rhesus-negative factor and the fetus has a rhesus-positive factor inherited from the father.

This case, the mother’s body begins to produce antibodies that can harm the child and cause the destruction of red blood cells, up to the death. Injection of a drug during pregnancy and immediately after delivery helps to avoid health problems in children in subsequent pregnancies.

To date, Svetlana has 312 donations of immune plasma. For 28 years now, she has been coming every month, and sometimes twice a month, to the blood transfusion station to share her plasma antibodies to produce the drug. In total, she donated approximately 208 litres of immune plasma, of which about 1,000 doses of Rh immunoglobulin were produced, resulting in hundreds of healthy babies.

There are only eight such women donors in the Samara region. Plasma for the production of immunoglobulin gathers all over Russia.

Svetlana lives in the Samara region in the village of Pahar, Volga district, 47 km from the blood transfusion station. Public transport only reaches the center of the village, which is another four kilometers from her home.

Svetlana Gubskaya: «The road to the blood transfusion station and back home takes me almost all day. The buses run on time, and if I’m late, the next bus has to wait a long time. We have transport only to the village of Prosvet, and there you have to rely on the help of fellow villagers who go on the way, or to overcome four kilometers on foot. With age, this distance of course became more difficult, especially in winter. There is a fear that suddenly I will stop coming to you and someone will need me!»

Svetlana is a very modest person when it comes to her donor activities, except for something special. Donation has been a beneficial monthly habit for many years.

Svetlana Gubskaya: «Despite my solid age, I am ready to help further, I will reach 400 donations, and there my shift will grow. Plasma withdrawal has made me feel younger. Sometimes I even think how I will be without donation, it has already become a big part of my life!»

Svetlana is a person with a big heart, living in a quiet corner of our vast country, simply and not rich. She has seven children, 19 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Her care is not limited to these 27 blood people. Every month she shares a piece of herself for the benefit of other mothers and their children. And, according to Svetlana, she will help as long as she can.

The Blood Service invites you to vote for a donor of immune plasma https://vk.com/yadonor_samara?w=wall-16905638_46315

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