Malang, Indonesia (News Today) - Fast dwindling blood stocks in Malang, East Java, have compelled the local Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) to restrict supply of blood to the public. Local PMI’s blood transfusion unit spokesperson Sri Hartami said here on Monday the blood stock had declined sharply following increased demand from outside Malang.
"Because of increased demand for blood from outside Malang, we have to restrict its distribution until we have more donors," she said
Meanwhile, chief of the local PMI’s blood transfusion unit, June Legiwati, said here last Tuesday the blood stock was sufficient only for the next two days.
She said Malang’s PMI office as of last Tuesday had less than a hundred pouches of blood, while average blood demand in the city was at least 50 pouches per day. June Legiwati admitted that they had around 100 pouches of blood on Tuesday and thus it would probably be enough for only two days.
"We normally have around 700 to 1,000 pouches of blood but now less than 100 are available, and such a condition makes us worry about it," June said.
She admitted that blood demand in the past three weeks continued to increase while the number of blood donors kept decreasing. According to her, the PMI in Malang would utterly run out of blood stock in the next few days if there was no donor.
She said lack of residents who conducted blood drives had caused 50 percent in blood decline. In normal days more than 100 people could donate their bloods but it drastically decline during the Ramadan fasting month.
She said blood donors mostly came from college students in Malang but during the fasting month they returned to their respective home villages to spend their holiday. Therefore blood stock at PMI in Malang is now in a critical situation.
Source : kompas
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Blood Supply Restricted to Public in Malang
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