This is because the current stocks are ‘tied’ to patients.
The Popondetta hospital requires a huge volume of blood but unfortunately this is not the case at the moment. Each time a patient requires blood transfusion it is usually family members who donate.
John Morris, the blood bank attendant said: “There have been cases where patients needing blood transfusion would wait days until relatives turned up.”
“We only get one or two volunteer donors in a week if we are lucky. Most of the time the donations are tied to patients”