The health ministry’s blood bank on Tuesday made a plea for blood donations to meet urgent needs during the summer holidays.
The cancellation of many blood drives in schools and universities due to the pandemic during spring has led to dangerously low reserves, it said, “despite the great effort made for several days to recover blood stocks.”
The exclusion of a large number of blood donors due to the health and safety protection measures taken due to the pandemic was another reason.
As a result, there is not enough blood supply to meet needs during the summer holiday season.
The blood bank is calling on all blood donors but also people who have not done this so far, to go to their nearest blood centres for donations.
“Patients at the operating tables, njured people, people in need if transfusions, and many others are waiting for your offer as the most valuable gift to them,” the blodd bank said…
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