Reserves have reached their lowest levels in history, compelling medical staff to donate. FMTNews China Virus
Dr Kong Yuefeng, a recovered Covid-19 patient donating plasma in the city’s blood centre in Wuhan. Blood collection centres around the country have reported sharp drops in donations, with one even issuing a “red alert” as stocks dwindle.
While hospitals are postponing elective surgeries until after the epidemic is controlled, cancer patients, people suffering from blood diseases and critical care patients still need transfusions. “The number of people on the street has dropped abruptly, the amount of blood donated has dropped suddenly,” a blood collection centre in the city of Linyi, in northeast China, warned on WeChat earlier this month.
Most of the requests are for traditional blood donations, but at least one blood centre said it was also collecting plasma from recovered coronavirus patients for use in treating the disease.
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