KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Blood collection at the National Blood Centre (PDN) in the first week of Ramadan was less than 60% of the required 500 to 600 bags of blood to be collected by the centre, while the Puspanitapuri Blood Donation Suite in Putrajaya recorded only 32.8% collection.
This number is alarming because every 43 seconds, one bag of blood is needed to save a patient’s life.
PDN, in a statement on Tuesday (April 27), said that as many as 500 to 600 donors were needed daily to ensure the need to save patients lives was met.
The country’s stock of blood supply must always be sufficient to meet the needs of transfusion procedures (for cases that require blood transfusions such as accidents, surgery and even routine treatment such as Thalassemia patients), it said.
National blood centre running low on supply, especially types A, O 14 Jan 2021 / 23:13 H. Pix for representational purpose only.
KUALA LUMPUR: The blood supply at the National Blood Centre (PDN) is running low, below the safe zone, particularly of blood types A and O, said its deputy director 1 Dr Tun Maizura Mohd Fathlullah.
Therefore, she appealed to the public, especially blood donors, to come forward to donate their blood for the use of the needy as well as to prevent blood supply from reaching the critical level.
She added that during the implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO), especially for the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and in Selangor, blood donors are allowed to donate blood.