UK faces major blood crisis, calls for 2,00,000 more donors as ‘red alert' looms large
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NHS urgently needs more lifesaving blood donors: Health Minister Merron
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The National Health Service (NHS) has issued a warning that the UK requires one million regular blood donors to maintain supply and avoid a "red alert". The 'red alert' suggests that blood supplies are so low that there is a threat to public safety.The health service has called for 2,00,000 new donors to step forward citing that it continues to face a "challenging" shortage of blood. The NHSBT managed to add just 2% of the population, under 8,00,000 people, who sustained the whole of England's blood supply in the last one year.It claimed that there is a "critical" need for more donors who have O negative blood. It is the universal type used in emergencies or when a patient's blood type is unknown.In July 2024, officials had issued an "amber alert" for stocks of O negative and O positive blood following the cyberattacks that hit London hospitals. According to media reports, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has stated that blood stocks have remained low since.Speaking on the blood stock situation, Dr Jo Farrar, NHSBT chief executive has said that the stocks have been challenging over the past 12 months. 'If we had a million regular donors, this would help keep our stocks healthy - you'd truly be one in a million,' he said."Please book an appointment today, experience how good it feels to save lives, and come and do it again in a few months," Farrar further stated.Several media reports have claimed that NHSBT has stressed over the requirement of more Black donors, who are more likely to have specific blood types that can help in the treatment of people with sickle cell disease.Health Minister Baroness Merron has said that the NHS is in urgent need of more lifesaving blood donors from all backgrounds."We are working alongside NHS Blood and Transplant to make donating blood easier than ever before, opening up new donor centres and making appointments available closer to home," she said, as reported by The Guardian. Women can donate blood once every four months and men can do the same once every three months.
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