40,000 blood units are needed every year for vital operations and treatments at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf alone. But, like the rest of the North, supplies are currently running low. The phenomenon is not new. Every year at the beginning of summer fewer donors come than in the rest of the year. Now that the corona restrictions have ended, the willingness to donate is apparently even lower than in other years.
How can this decline in willingness to donate be explained? And what do you have to bring with you or watch out for if you want to donate blood at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf? SAT.1 REGIONAL talked about that and more with Dr. Sven Peine, chief physician for transfusion medicine at the UKE.
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