13 minutes agoBlood Lack, Alarming
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Edona, 40-year-old from Pristina, for five years, two to three times a year, donates blood to save lives. She says that she also makes such an act for herself to feel good. But since the pandemic began, it has stopped going to the Blood Transfusion Center in [...]
Edona, 40-year-old from Pristina, for five years, two to three times a year, donates blood to save lives. She says that she also makes such an act for herself to feel good.
But since the pandemic began, it has no longer gone to the Blood Transfusion Centre in Pristina.
Unfortunately not, for fear of pandemic. This year, I've never given in January. In February, I had the time, but I couldn't go, then the pandemic started, and by March it all closed. But also fear of pandemic, she says.
Currently, the Blood Transfusion Center is in a state of alert. The lack of blood volunteers has already exhausted the accumulated reserves.
In Kosovo, about 30,000 doses of blood per year are provided through volunteers. These doses provide about 90 percent of the needs of patients for blood, in public health institutions in Kosovo.
So says Radio Free Europe, Beauty Jubby, director of Blood Transfusion, in which except people with COVIDD-19, who have needed blood, many other patients who had an accident and other diseases, have spent their blood doses.
We've had a huge blood supply we collected during the month of June when we had our voluntary blood donation week. Those reserves so far have been sufficient, but since the number of patients with COVID-19 increased markedly, we have cut off voluntary blood donation shares, she says.
Last month when blood was collected, it was June of this year. And from that month until this week, when it has been appealed to citizens to donate blood, there is no reserve gathered.
Jhubi says that even people with COVID - 19 are needing blood, so that has raised alarms at institutions to provide blood doses.
We appeal to all citizens of Kosovo to donate blood, as donations at this time make that person double hero. Blood also takes patients with COVID-19. I can say that by now 70 patients with COVID-19 positives have taken blood, Joubi shows.
Even the 39-year-old Bucolli Hope, by Pristina, a lawyer by profession, is a regular blood donor. According to her, blood donation should be a moral and human obligation for all.
Even during the pandemic, she has not interrupted the voluntary donation. The last time he donated it in June, when he was also organised by the Transition Centre.
I gave it in June, when I had time. I give blood every four months. I'm not afraid of COVID-19, because I feel safe during blood donation. I since high school voluntarily donate blood, she says.
Based on blood transfusion data, the number of blood donors in Kosovo has increased year-on-year. Blood donors are of different ages and different blood types.
