Home » Health » Blood supplies are extremely scarce in Bielefeld even before the summer holidays

Blood supplies are extremely scarce in Bielefeld even before the summer holidays

The blood donation services are urgently looking for donors. In the clinics, surgeons should collect and recycle the blood of the patients during bloody operations.


Suzanne Lahr

06/20/2022 | As of June 19, 2022, 6:21 p.m



Bielefeld. The country is menacingly anemic, even earlier this year than in 2021. The German Red Cross (DRK), which claims to cover around 75 percent of the blood needs of hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia, has therefore unusually sounded the alarm and called before the summer holidays people urgently to bloodletting. Bielefeld is happily bucking the trend, but even here blood supplies are in short supply. Because every drop is precious, surgeons in the city’s clinics should even think more about “blood washing”…

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.