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Hospitals are running out of blood

Red Cross inventories are at their lowest in 25 years. If the situation does not change, there is a risk that operations will have to be postponed.

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Blood donors are in short supply at the moment.

Andreas Zeitelberger is a trauma surgeon in a Lower Austrian hospital. What he has to say doesn’t sound very pleasant. The doctor points out that there are problems with the blood supply. “I have already had to postpone planned operations because the necessary blood supplies were needed for an emergency,” he says. And: This is a problem that now affects many hospitals. He is convinced that the situation will only get worse if more people don’t donate blood soon. The Lower Austrian…

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Accessed on July 1, 2022 at 11:53 a.m. at https://www.sn.at/panorama/oesterreich/spitaelern-geht-das-blut-aus-123600064

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