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May 25, 2012
Blood shortage puts operations on hold
Published: 26 May 09 11:06 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/19674/20090526/
Uppsala University Hospital has been forced to put operations on hold due to a shortage of blood.
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"We have searched the country and will receive supplies by taxi during the day from some remote locations. There is a shortage of blood in the whole country," according to Johan Rönnelid, a chief physician at the hospital.
Rönnelid explains in the statement, which makes an appeal to all new and existing donors to contact the hospital's blood bank, that the shortage primarily afflicts the blood groups O and B.
He explained furthermore that the underlying reason behind the acute shortage of blood is the increasingly advanced healthcare techniques that require larger quantities of blood.
Blood shortages are not uncommon during the summer months but rarely occur as early as May. The postponement of operations is also a very rare occurrence and has not been necessary at the Uppsala hospital for several years.
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Is there a mandate in Sweden which states that those who have received donated blood must, "repay" the supply?
Also you are usually barred if you are on any kind of medication - my arthitis drugs stop me from repaying the many pints I recevied with DD1
As for the repayment - it largely depends on the facility you received the donation from. My father received a sizable amount of blood after a horrific accident. It was the trauma center's policy that he repay what he received (once well enough, naturally). Not only did the trauma center recoup the loss but they created a life long blood donor in the process.
Regarding the weird rules of blood donation, you have me there. I still cannot figure out why, in this instance, the Red Cross has as many limitations on donations that they do considering they have to test all of the samples they receive, anyhow. Perhaps it's my gross naivete or complete frustration - but whenever I hear about shortages and then think of the stupid rules (no gheyers, no donors who lived in Europe for X amount of time, etc...) I want to rip my hair out.
i think we should do that i mean the heathy people coz some day we will be sick so the others will help us and so on. God save them
and then i would ask. for the rest of you living here permanently, why can't you speak swedish?
In terms of banning people you have smoked a joint...then I would be in trouble as I've probably "inhaled" passively a number of times. So, another ridiculous rule. Do you think a patient who urgently needs blood is going to give a flying F**k if you can understand Swedish or smoked a joint in the past. As long as the blood is checked for all the usual problems, then what is the problem. Yet again...common sense is ignored in the face of bureaucracy!!
Life long ban from donation after pot smoking!......kind of narrows down the percentage of acceptable donators just a tinge I,d say.
Is blood from alcoholics allowed?.......If not that would explain the blood shortage!
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My sides are hurting from laughing funny Plowbridge!!
... after 3 months without a hair test pot can't be found in the system. I am an A- blood type. I used to give blood all the time in the states, they used my stuff to make all kinds of great things. Shame, all this shortage is their own fault.
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and if they made the exception that english would be ok, had the forms, train the majority of the staff to be competent in english (to a reasonable level that they would be exonerated from any liability that could be blamed on a misunderstanding stemming from a translation/interpretation) what's to keep people speaking other languages from insisting their language be included?
and that money spent on putting in the infrastructure to allow the 42 people per year who speak english but not swedish to donate...wouldn't it be better spent bringing in swedish residents who do speak swedish?