Washington-Sana
For the first time in a decade, the American Red Cross has announced that the United States is facing the worst blood shortage crisis.
And the American “CBS” network quoted Bambi Young, the chief medical officer of the authority, as saying that “some cases that need blood cannot wait or endure,” warning that this crisis poses a threat to patient care, forcing doctors to make difficult decisions about the situation. Priorities among patients in receiving blood transfusions and deferring who can wait.
American medical institutions have witnessed a 10 percent decrease in the number of blood donors since the beginning of the Corona pandemic, which exacerbated the problem, especially after the increase in cases of the Omicron mutant and before that, Delta.
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