2019Give Blood - Give Blood Relations - First Day Cover

IPST - Portuguese Institute of Blood and Transplantation, IP's mission is to ensure and regulate, at a national level, the activity of transfusion medicine and transplantation but also to ensure the donation, collection, analysis, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human blood, blood components, organs, tissues and cells of human origin. Carrying out morethan 60 years of existence, as it was rst established in 1958,the vision of IPST is to promote donation as a transversal gesture to all its activity with the aim of contributing to human life in time and quality assuring for this that good practices and innovation accompany the state of the art. The institutional values of this vision arise from the assumption of IPST as an institution dedicated to the support of human life through the areas of blood and transplantation.