India Plans To Keep Blood Banks Filled As COVID-19 Vaccination Starts for Over-18s
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Over the past few weeks, India s unpreparedness for the second wave has laid bare the country s poor health infrastructure. Every day the country reports a fresh record - either in how many deaths or cases have been registered.
Fearing the blood banks could run dry in case of emergency, India s Government on Wednesday decided to cut how long blood donors must wait after receiving one or two doses of the currently available COVID-19 vaccines, to 14 days.
According to the the National Blood Transfusion Council (NBTC), the step has been taken after detailed talks with health experts.
Hospitals grapple with plasma shortage; doctors urge recovered patients for donation Hospitals grapple with plasma shortage; doctors urge recovered patients for donation
Twitter is brimmed with SOS calls for plasma donation. In several places, doctors have been seen pleading the recently recovered to donate their plasma. 6:47 PM
Hospitals across the country are grappling with an acute shortage of plasma as the exponential surge in the cases has outstripped the availability. This comes at a time when doctors have already predicted that the status of shortage of plasma is bound to worsen as the young population is preparing themselves to get vaccinated. Doctors from several hospitals of Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, and Pune have requested those who have recovered from the infection to donate plasma before taking the jab.
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India will face acute shortage of young blood donors in the coming months due to COVID vaccination! We need to act now
India will face acute shortage of young blood donors in the coming months due to COVID vaccination! We need to act now
Surat: Opening vaccination for all adults from May 1 has literally come as a shot in the arm in the fight against the pandemic. But the liberalization of vaccination may have its own ‘side-effect’.
The National Blood Transfusion Council prohibits the donation of whole blood for 28 days after taking the coronavirus vaccine due to which blood banks in Surat are speculating a shortage of blood for a couple of months. Blood banks in Diamond City have appealed to citizens to come forward and donate blood before they take the jab after May 1.
The Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion (IHBT) at SMIMER Hospital has started circulating messages among the people to come forward and donate blood. The message asks citizens to plan by donating blood and avoid a possible shortage of blood in the next two to three months due to mass vaccination. Citizens were requested to circulate the messages in their WhatsApp groups and also share it on their social media profile.