About 40 people have given blood at the blood centre of the Haskovo hospital for those hurt in the crashes on the Trakia motorway, Dr Anna Dimova said.

By 11:00 this morning there were 38 donors, and 28 of them came on Wednesday, the day after the crashes.

The previous development: 38 people give blood in Haskovo for victims of Trakia motorway crash

The crashes happened on Tuesday, 10 November, at about 7:00am in thick fog. In all, 86 vehicles hit each other in both directions of the motorway, near the Zimnitsa road junction close to Yambol. Twelve people died: 11 on the day of the crashes and one of the seriously injured, who died in hospital today.

So far 567 donors have joined the national campaign run by the Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC) and the National Centre of Transfusion Haematology. In Sofia the two groups run it together with Sofia Municipality. Dr Nadezhda Todorovska, deputy director general of the BRC, said the blood centres there cannot serve everyone who wants to give: 397 people donated, and another 200 could not.

The university hospital in Burgas called for donors on the day of the crash. The hospital said yesterday that more than 200 people had come. Because of the interest, it has changed how the blood donation unit works, and it will stay open until 19:00 all week.

In Plovdiv, more than 400 people gave blood after the crashes, 278 of them on the day of mourning, said Dr Yanko Yankov, director of the regional blood transfusion centre in Plovdiv. In Yambol 36 people donated, and in Sliven 77 on the day of the crashes and 57 on the day of mourning. In Stara Zagora 130 donors came on the day of mourning.

"We have enough blood for now – people are coming and keep coming," Dr Petya Mateeva, director of the regional blood transfusion centre in Stara Zagora, told BTA. She asked anyone who can to give in December or January, because donated blood must be used within 35 to 42 days.

There is also enough blood in Gabrovo, where 25 people gave in the two-day campaign, 17 of them yesterday, the press office of the "Dr Tota Venkova" hospital said.

In Veliko Tarnovo, 72 people donated yesterday, 20 of them for the first time, and the unit took donors until the evening. People were waiting from early this morning, said Dr Mariana Vitanova, head of the unit. There are also people waiting in Dobrich. Yesterday 52 people gave blood there, and 44 of them were accepted. Dr Yuliyana Dimitrova, head of the unit at the Dobrich hospital, said the campaign will go on as long as people want to give.

In Shumen, 45 people donated on 11 November, 30 of them because of the crashes. Today 25 have come, 15 of them because of the crashes. This is the biggest number of donors in the past few months, said Galina Georgieva, head nurse in the transfusion haematology unit of the Shumen hospital.

In Pleven, regular donors came as early as Tuesday afternoon because they knew blood would be needed, said Dr Vasilina Vasileva, head of the blood donation unit at the regional blood transfusion centre. About 80 people gave blood yesterday, and 13 had by noon today. In Targovishte, about 15 people donated on Wednesday.

In Vidin, five people donated on the first day of the campaign and about ten yesterday, five of them for their own relatives. Four people who wanted to give were turned away for medical reasons, said Dr Svetlana Stankova. In Montana, 14 volunteers came yesterday, 13 gave blood, and one was sent home because of blood pressure problems. In Silistra, some of those who came have already donated, and others were turned away for medical reasons. Dr Pavlina Pavlova, head of the unit at the Silistra hospital, said interest is still high.

In Blagoevgrad, nearly 80 people donated yesterday, and today there are also many, said Dr Boyka Marinova Daskalova, head of the unit at the hospital. In Pomorie, the donors include students from the Ivan Vazov secondary school.

The Kanev university hospital in Ruse is running a campaign called "Be Someone's Type" from 2 November to 21 December. More than 20 people have donated since it began, including 12th-grade students from the English Language School.