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The Raja Perempuan Zainab II Hospital (HRPZ II) – one of the main hospitals in Kelantan which also facilitates Covid-19 patients – is running low on blood and supplies are only expected to last up to three days.
HRPZ II Director Datuk Dr Selasawati Ghazali explained that an average of 80 to 100 bags of blood is needed every day in order to meet the demand at nine public and three private hospitals across the state.
Because of the Movement Control Order (MCO), hospitals are unable to organize and hold large scale donation drives and are fully dependent on the public to willingly come to hospitals to donate blood.
Blood supply at HRPZ ii critical, can only last for three days 16 Jan 2021 / 15:08 H.
KOTA BHARU: The blood supply at Raja Perempuan Zainab II Hospital (HRPZ II) is now in critical condition and can only last for up to three days, said the hospital’s director, Datuk Dr Selasawati (rpt: Selasawati) Ghazali.
She said this was due to the hospital not being able to hold blood donation programmes extensively because of the current situation.
“Previously, we often held blood donation programmes, involving the participation of university and college students, as well as at supermarkets, but due to the current condition, such as the enforcement of the Movement Control Order (MCO) and the Conditional MCO, the programmes cannot be held.