Blood bank supply to Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital down by 40% since MCO began

IPOH: There has been a 40% reduction in the blood supply of the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital’s (HRBP) blood bank since the start of the movement control order (MCO), says transfusion medicine specialist Dr Irni Mohd Yasin.

“We require blood daily, especially for thalassemia and accident patients, as well as for some mothers who deliver babies. We require between 80 and 100 packs of blood daily, and some 20 Thalassemia patients also require blood daily, ” she told reporters on Tuesday (April 28).