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Covid-19 outbreak interrupts blood donations in Vietnam
By Chi Le February 23, 2021 | 09:00 pm GMT+7
With the latest Covid-19 outbreak still ongoing, regular blood donors are staying away, cutting supply to those who are in dire need of transfusions.
Ly Lo May, 26, learned that she has blood cancer over a month ago. The leukemia causes her to hemorrhage. There are bruises all over her body and she faces the risk of brain hemorrhage.
A Dao ethnic woman from the northern mountainous province of Sa Pa, May is under treatment at the National Institute of Haematology & Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) in Hanoi since January 29. She needs blood transfusion every day. Sometimes for one process, she needs as many as four blood units, or 1,000 millimeters in total, per day.