{"id":79115,"date":"2019-06-13T11:39:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T09:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79115"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:39:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T09:39:38","slug":"scarcity-of-o-blood-type-hits-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/13\/scarcity-of-o-blood-type-hits-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarcity of \u2018O\u2019 blood type hits Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Bethsaida Msowoya: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79118\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blood-donation-students.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79118\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blood-donation-students.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blood-donation-students.jpg 431w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blood-donation-students-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AMONG BIG DONORS\u2014Students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malawi Blood Transfusion Services (MBTS) has said it has a shortage of \u2018O\u2019 negative blood type in its blood banks across the country.<\/p>\n<p>MBTS spokesperson, Allen Kaombe, said \u2018O\u2019 negative is an important blood type because it can be transfused to persons with different blood types.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cO\u2019 negative blood type is very rare in most cases; so, the collection of this type of blood has been very difficult,\u201d<\/em> Kaombe said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking ahead of World Blood Donor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/campaigns\/world-blood-donor-day\/2019\">Day<\/a> to be commemorated on June 15 in Lilongwe, Kaombe said MBTS had intensified awareness campaigns for more people to donate blood.<\/p>\n<p>Kaombe said, for instance, MBTS had collected 63,000 units of blood against targeted 80,000 units from July 2018 to date.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi needs 120,000 units of blood to cater for the needs of patients across the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe upcoming event focuses on raising awareness on the role of safe, timely, accessible blood and blood products in helping people in need of blood transfusion in hospitals,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MBTS collects more blood during school summer holidays.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s commemorations will be held under the theme \u2018Safe Blood for All\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bethsaida Msowoya: Malawi Blood Transfusion Services (MBTS) has said it has a shortage of \u2018O\u2019 negative blood type in its blood banks across the country. MBTS spokesperson, Allen Kaombe, said \u2018O\u2019 negative is an important blood type because it can be transfused to persons with different blood types. \u201cO\u2019 negative blood type is very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79119,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79115\/revisions\/79119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}