Zimbabwe’s blood bank is running dangerously, the NBSZ has announced they have stock that will last less than 5 days, Health Times reports.
This was revealed by NBSZ Public Affairs manager Ms Esther Massundah at a press conference today. Massundah told journalists that:
We are currently running low in terms of our blood stocks. We have got blood stocks that are below the five days, which is the standard requirement of the blood bank to at least have a five days worth of stock.
So we are currently running low, if we are running low, we are running stocks of below five days which means we are running stocks of about three days and less and our stocks are running below the five days. Our blood bank is running below capacity.
NBSZ earlier this week said the blood shortage was being caused by the pandemic which has delayed and or hindered them from acquiring consumables to be used to collect blood from donors.
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