Urgent call for blood from Chiang Mai hospital

[snoop1130]

Urgent call for blood from Chiang Mai hospital

By The Nation

 

 

Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital in the northern province of Chiang Mai is calling for donations of all blood types following a shortage of blood supply for its patents.

 

“A hospital’s blood shortage is correlated with the spike in road accidents. The more road crashes, the more blood is needed for treatments,” said hospital director Dr Wichai Churnchongkolkul.

 

He said a blood shortage happened every year, often around the time of long holidays and key festivals such as Songkran, New Year or Loy Krathong. There were usually more road accidents during long holidays, while a larger number of people also seek medical treatment and services after the long holidays, he added.

 

Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital also serves as a medical school and as a large-size hospital in the province, it supports patients with various serious ailments that require a lot of blood supplies, such as surgeries for heart disease patients, recipients of organ implants and thalassemia patients, Wichai said. 

 

Each month this hospital requires 3,000 units of blood for use, he explained. But the number of blood donors has been on a decline, leading the hospital to come up about 600 units short every month. The amount the Red Cross Society is able to supply at the hospital’s request is not sufficient for patient needs, he added.

 

The hospital has implemented proactive measures to seek blood donations, while the staff, teachers and students at Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Medicine, have joined with others to help spread the call for help in social media. More people have showed up to offer blood donations as a result he said, but more blood is needed. People can donate blood at the Sripat Building’s ground floor blood bank (tel 053-935624).

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30368810

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-05-03

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[Justgrazing]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

A hospital’s blood shortage is correlated with the spike in road accidents. The more road crashes, the more blood is needed for treatments,”

No surprise there .. folk do tend to leak a lot of claret if they get mashed up in a crash .. 

[rebo]

Can anybody provide the necessary prerequisites for blood donation (e.g. max. age, previous illnesses, medications ...)?
Thanks.

[legend49]

“A hospital’s blood shortage is correlated with the spike in road accidents. The more road crashes, the more blood is needed for treatments,” said hospital director Dr Wichai Churnchongkolkul.

 

Fix the problem instead of fiddling a solution.

[Khun Paul]

Well as I am an international donor, according to Thai authorities I am nopw to old to don ate, even though my mother at 80 plus still donated in the UYK, here you are too old. How stupid 

 

[connda]

36 minutes ago, Khun Paul said:

Well as I am an international donor, according to Thai authorities I am nopw to old to don ate, even though my mother at 80 plus still donated in the UYK, here you are too old. How stupid 

 

I then to agree.  When they set arbitrary age limits on donors, they are basically saying that blood is not "Urgently needed" as they stated.  If it was 'Urgent" then they would take blood donations from any healthy adult.

From the International Red Cross:
"There is no upper age limit for blood donation as long as you are well with no restrictions or limitations to your activities."

Unless you live in Thailand.  So Thailand would rather have a problem with their ability to provide blood to those who desperately need it than to follow international blood donation guidelines which place no upper-limit on the age of those donating blood.  That's pretty pathetic in a superstitious, third-world sort of way.

 

 

Edited May 4, 2019 by connda

[ThomasThBKK]

17 hours ago, rebo said:

Can anybody provide the necessary prerequisites for blood donation (e.g. max. age, previous illnesses, medications ...)?
Thanks.

i only know the last time i wanted to rescue someones life who needed a blood transfusion for 0 neg blood they told me i am european and should bugger off.

 

They don't want european blood because of creutzfeld jacob... Which is quite hilarious, but it is what it is...

 

 

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, ThomasThBKK said:

i only know the last time i wanted to rescue someones life who needed a blood transfusion for 0 neg blood they told me i am european and should bugger off.

 

They don't want european blood because of creutzfeld jacob... Which is quite hilarious, but it is what it is...

 

 

Same as Australia. If you were resident in the UK in certain years they will not take your blood.... Mad cow syndrome as  you pointed out.

[ThomasThBKK]

1 minute ago, emptypockets said:

Same as Australia. If you were resident in the UK in certain years they will not take your blood.... Mad cow syndrome as  you pointed out.

 

This is for all of europe here, i am german. Not only the UK. just for info.. 

I think its something like "If you stayed more than 5 years in the EU during the 90s" then you are not allowed to donate blood.