The Australian Red Cross has issued an urgent appeal for blood donors after confirming that fewer than two days of supplies remain across all blood groups nationwide | marywardy
The supply of all other blood types is also low, at 1.9 days.Advertisement
Cancelled appointments due to isolation rules have particularly affected NSW supplies, with only 1.5 days worth of all blood types in the state.With the Easter and Anzac long weekends approaching, Lifeblood’s director of donor services Cath Stone said it could not afford to see the usual drop-off in donations on a public holiday weekend, when the number of road accidents and emergency presentations mean higher demand for blood.
A Lifeblood analysis of data from 1.3 million hospital patients and more than half a million donors published last month found the proportion of Australians with O negative blood had dropped to 6.5 per cent. Donor data estimated the proportion was 9 per cent during the 1990s. Mitch Bryce, a group account manager for Lifeblood’s services across Canberra and southern NSW, experienced the need for O negative firsthand during Easter three years ago, when he accidentally ripped out surgical stitches while driving from Canberra to Geelong.“I’d taken an ibuprofen because I couldn’t drive on the pain medication I had been using, the trouble was that prevented the blood from clotting,” he said. “I lost two and a half litres of blood.
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