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The staff of the North District Hospital did not follow the procedures to refrigerate the 4 packets of plasma left in the delivery box and must be destroyed. The hospital apologized

2020-09-20T12:49:52.963Z


Under the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, the Red Cross has repeatedly been in urgent need of blood stocks, stating that the stocks of Type O, Type A, and Type B are all low. However, recently public hospitals suspected that there was a program error that caused plasma to be destroyed. It is understood that some personnel in the North District Hospital suspected that all the frozen plasma had not been refrigerated in accordance with the procedures. 4 packs of plasma were left in the shipping box. The Red Cross revealed the incident when it was recovered. The 4 packs of plasma were left at room temperature for too long. Use must be destroyed. The spokesperson of the North District Hospital admitted that the incident occurred on September 8. The hospital staff failed to store 4 packs of plasma in the designated cold storage due to communication problems. The hospital apologized to the blood donors and citizens for the incident and set up an investigation team to review the incident. Process blood products.


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Author: Chen Qianting

2020-09-20 18:26

Last update date: 2020-09-20 19:23

Under the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, the Red Cross has repeatedly been in urgent need of blood stocks, stating that the stocks of Type O, Type A, and Type B are all low. However, recently public hospitals suspected that there was a program error that caused plasma to be destroyed.

It is understood that some personnel in the North District Hospital suspected that all the frozen plasma had not been refrigerated in accordance with the procedures. 4 packs of plasma were left in the shipping box. The Red Cross revealed the incident when it was recovered. The 4 packs of plasma were left at room temperature for too long. Use must be destroyed.

The spokesperson of the North District Hospital admitted that the incident occurred on September 8. The hospital staff failed to store 4 packs of plasma in the designated cold storage due to communication problems. The hospital apologized to the blood donors and citizens for the incident and set up an investigation team to review the incident. Process blood products.

The staff of the North District Hospital did not follow the procedures to refrigerate, leaving 4 packets of plasma in the transport box to be destroyed.

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"Hong Kong 01" learned that personnel from the North District Hospital failed to refrigerate 4 packs of frozen plasma according to procedures and were left in the shipping box. The incident was revealed when the Red Cross recovered the shipping box. The 4 packs of plasma were left at room temperature for too long. Use must be destroyed.

A spokesperson for the North District Hospital confirmed the incident and apologized to the blood donors and citizens for the incident.

The spokesperson said that the blood bank of the hospital received a notice from the Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Center on September 9 that four packets of plasma were found in the blood product delivery box recovered by the North District Hospital.

Since the plasma has been stored at room temperature for more than 30 minutes, it is not suitable for use.

North District Hospital: An investigation team will be established to review communication problems without refrigeration

A preliminary investigation by relevant departments of the hospital found that the four packs of plasma were sent to the blood bank of the hospital by the blood transfusion service center on September 8.

After the blood bank staff completed the registration procedure, they did not store the four packs of plasma in the designated cold storage due to communication problems, but left them in the shipping box, and returned the shipping box to the blood transfusion service center the next day.

The spokesperson said that the hospital is very concerned about the incident. Today, it has notified the Head Office of the Hospital Authority of the incident, and will set up an investigation team to conduct an in-depth review of the blood bank's process of receiving and processing blood products, propose improvement measures, and strengthen staff to respond to the incident. Training of the reporting mechanism to prevent similar incidents from happening again.

The hospital mentioned that the hospital blood bank regularly receives blood products from the blood transfusion service center to maintain sufficient reserves.

The blood bank of the hospital has always had sufficient plasma stock, and the incident did not affect the treatment of the patient. 

(Screenshot of Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Center webpage)

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