Additional blood donation session to be held today following low blood stocks

Wed, 19 Oct 2022

An additional blood donation session will be held today in response to the UK’s current alert for low stocks of blood.
 
Manx Care’s Pathology team is putting out an appeal for any O negative or O positive blood donors who are feeling fit and well and have not donated in the last 16 weeks (since 27 June 2022) to ‘drop in’ to the session today between 15:00 and 18:00 at the Old Noble’s donor suite.

It's estimated that around 8% of people have O negative blood, but O negative makes up 13% of requests from hospitals. 

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