«The period following the Christmas holidays is always a time of great difficulty, considering that the supplies of red blood cells and platelets are drastically reduced. In these days, therefore, we need you further so as not to put transfusions at risk in patients who need them. We are waiting for you!!! It’s really important!!!” The manager of the Cosenza Transfusion Center is asking for help from everyone, Luigi Zinnoworried about the shortage of blood which risks also affecting the activities of hospitals. Not only the Annunziata, but also those of Castrovillari, Corigliano Rossano and Paola.
The decline in blood donations, which is physiological in this post-Christmas period as in the summer, is further aggravated, filtering through healthcare environments, by the increase in surgical interventions both in the city and in the other hub hospitals of Cosentino. Good news for patients, a sign of a healthcare system that is trying to raise its head again, but which brings with it the need for blood to supplement that lost during operations. Furthermore, in some cases these are complex operations, for which the need for plasma increases. «So far we have managed not to postpone anything that was scheduled, thanks to the commitment of the permanent donors and also to the expertise of the doctors, but in the future we could risk it», adds doctor Zinno. Who specifies that already “we are in an emergency”. This is why the appeal is aimed at broadening the audience of donors not only for this period.
