Part of the problemk regarding Blood Donation is the restrictive rules of age for donors. Like many others I suspect even being an International Blood Donor ( age 73 ), they refuse to take blood even if they have patients dying because they do not have any for them.
Was a Registered Blood Donor in the UK since 16 years old, gave each year as requested only to find here rejected. <y ,other gave blood into her 80's, but here as years ago the age expectancy was so low they set it at 60, so anything older is considered too OLDF, which for most Western people is ridiculous. Those people l;ke me with O Negative blood worry as we know THAILAND will not have this blood when we need it.