Blood donors are acutely missing from Brno hospitals Health News Brněnská Drbna
In recent months, the Brno University Hospital at St. Anne’s (FNUSA) has been catching up with operations that have been postponed due to the coronavirus epidemic. However, due to dozens of proven procedures a day, there are complications in the form of lack of blood. Health care providers urgently need blood group donors 0-, B- and AB-.
Doctors at FNUSA also operate on 70 patients a day. Most often, their intervention is needed for surgery, cardiology, orthopedics and plastic surgery. “However, blood consumption is also increasing in internal wards for patients with reduced hematopoiesis,” the hospital spokeswoman explained Dana Lipovská.
The hospital’s blood bank now registers a critical shortage of RH-negative blood group donors. It is possible to prepare at least two transfusion products from the blood of donors who come to FNUSA. “And one such major classic operation means the consumption of two to five transfusion preparations, but if complications occur, the patient’s condition may require several times more,” said the head of the Blood Bank FNUSA Jarmila Celerová.
The hospital therefore asks the public for cooperation and regularly encourages new gifts to help increase the blood supply to banks. Any healthy person weighing at least fifty kilograms can donate blood. Women can share blood three times a year, men four times.
By donating blood, volunteers help not only patients during planned operations, but also those who find themselves suddenly injured or affected by the disease unexpectedly. For this reason, for example, South Moravian police officers go to donate blood regularly. It is the workers from the Vyškov region that we see the local hospital yesterday afternoon to share the valuable liquid. “Most of them have dozens of donations, one of the donors is approaching the 70th blood donation,” described a spokeswoman for the South Moravian police Alice Musilová.
Police are donating blood at Vyškov Hospital.