National blood bank still failing to meet demand

Friday, June 17, 2016

The country is still struggling to meet its annual demand of 400,000 units of blood despite accelerated transfusion campaigns. Mmegi has established that last year 27,000 units of blood were collected, which was the highest ever in history.

With increased road carnage, the demand for blood transfusion is escalating among accidents and emergency victims.

To augment collections at the Gaborone National Blood Transfusion Centre and the Frrancistown Regional Blood Transfusion Centre, blood collection was decentralised to districts in 2013.

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National blood bank still failing to meet demand

The country is still struggling to meet its annual demand of 400,000 units of blood despite accelerated transfusion campaigns. Mmegi has established that last year 27,000 units of blood were collected, which was the highest ever in history.