Ghaziabad: Blood shortages that begin in the district during the pandemic have not been overcome.
Officials said that there was a decrease in the normal blood donor camp in the district, and even to those carried out only a handful of people appeared.
The blood bank at the MMG Hospital, which is the largest in this district, only has 50 units remaining with it against the capacity to reach more than 500 units.
More than a month ago, the inch of the blood bank has appealed to the public to contribute blood, but the situation has not increased much.
About 50 units of blood were left in the center of the city government which was alone on Monday.
To handle the situation, two camps were held on Monday, one at the blood bank itself and others in Modinagar.
Every year, the government department is asked to regulate blood donor camps by administration, but they do not happen today, an official said.
Officials said that government organizations were once one of their main blood supply sources because they regularly conducted a blood donor camp.
However, the Covid outbreak has greatly influenced the results of these camps.
They added that around 50-55 blood donor camps were held every year by government organizations and around 3,000 units of blood were collected through them.
Although the camps were arranged after the breakup of Covid last year in March, the number of units collected was gloomy.
During 2019-20, 47 camps were held in the district and only 1,403 units of blood can be collected through them.
This number then slumped at 2020-21, where only 400 units of blood were collected in 20 camps.
Last month, officials who handled the function of blood banks had honed the public urgent to advance and contributed blood to the unit every day between 10am and 4pm.
Demand is also made for social organizations to hold the earliest camp.
The blood bank, which is the largest in this district, only has 50 units remaining with it against the capacity to reach more than 500 units.
Officials are worried that if people do not advance and donate blood, it can make a sudden break in the treatment of some patients suffering from thalassemia, anemia, cancer, dialysis and accident victims, among others.
In such situations, those who came to take blood were instructed to bring donors with them.
“Our first goal is to save life, so we don’t insist on donors in such cases.
However, with other people, we ask them to provide donors.
There are acute shortages of negative blood groups,” said the Senior Blood Bank Technical Officer AK Tomar.
Tomar said that people were afraid to donate blood for fear of being covid.
Camps detained by NGOs and other organizations but the collection is inadequate.
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Only 50 units left in the Hospital MMG Blood Bank because Covid’s fear made the donor away
