Pandemia also affected providing blood reserves in Kosovo hospitals

Many required blood donations of certain groups as positive A, or a negative A.

In this regard.net has contacted the Blood Transfusion Centre, which has suggested that blood supply shortages are usually for certain blood groups or blood components, but which, according to them, the situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic also affected the latter.

But the lack of certain blood groups, they say, is a phenomenon that is common throughout the world, including the most developed countries.

The use of social media for blood donations can produce a large flow of donations, but blood and blood components have their own life expectancy and the appointed time of their use for therapeutic purpose. Like. Trumpetings have life expectancy of 5-7 days. Massive donation on a certain day or interval would not fill the reserves more than seven days. For this, blood donation must have been balanced throughout the year. QKKTR promotes continued blood donation by organising donor shares throughout the year”, the blood transfusion Centre said in response.

It was also stressed that blood reserves at the QKKTR are largely provided by voluntary blood donors and that this is accomplished mainly through mobile teams of this facility, which organise voluntary blood donation shares in public institutions and not public institutions.

“As in the Kosovo Police, F SK, PTK, KEK, government institutions, universities, colleges, schools, mosques, churches and self-organizations of citizens in specific villages”.

COVID-19 appears to have influenced everything, even the supply of blood at QKUK and regional hospitals.

QKKTR reported that COVID-19 has largely upset the chain of voluntary donation, thus limiting the possibility of organising stock donations.

Moving sections and fear of exposure during public circulation have also limited the access of donors to the centre to donate” blood, the QKKTG said.

The Blood Transport Center made it known that the prevalence of blood types is not homogenous in the population, hence there may be enough stocks of other products, but a lack of rare product or a highly used group.

The blood is subject to processing and division of various products. Each dose of blood can have one of the following 8 groups: A positive, A negative, B positive, B negative, AB positive, AB negative, O positive and O negative. The blood groups' preference is not homogenously distributed to the population. As a result, there may be enough stocks of other products, but the lack of blood products that are rare in the population, or any group that uses a lot of”, was said by the country's Blood Transfusion Center.