Sanquin Blood Bank has made an urgent appeal to hundreds of donors to give blood samples. By holiday plans and the good weather last week came many donors do not show up, so that the blood supply is under pressure.
Sanquin has a particular need for donations of blood types O positive, O negative, b negative and AB negative. ,, The blood supply is tighter than we would like, but there is no acute danger, “emphasizes Sanquin spokesman Merlin Hasselt.
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time being hospitals in the Netherlands a stock where they 5 to 9 days can move forward, but when the called donors do not show up, the situation is dire. ,, if no response is given to our call, we could call up additional donors next week . ”
In all, the Netherlands has 370 thousand blood donors. The average person has five liters of blood in the body. A blood donor gives a time off a pint of blood. Red blood cells are about 35 days. It has not yet occurred according to the blood bank that Dutch hospitals were without blood supply.
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