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The country has a deficit of around of 210 thousand pints
posted on: Nov 19 2011 10:9 by RDugey. Viewed 40 times.
The shortage of safe blood the country round the 210 thousand pints annually, which causes difficulties in the treatment of patients who require transfusion, revealed the doctors Elisa Fernández of Scheker, gynecologist obstetrician, and Juan Merayo, Deputy medical director of the Bank of blood reference.
They explained that although Dominican Republic need a minimum of 300 thousand donations annual pints of 450 milliliters of blood regular to meet the needs of safe blood which has currently registering averages only 90 thousand donations.
This causes, they add, a delay in the treatment of patients that merit it with potential preventable deaths and recalled that the haemorrhage was the main cause of death mother.
Specialists referred to the issue at the Conference "maternity and blood safe", which was carried out at the Salon Pedro Mir of library costs.
Fernández de Scheker Merayo u000arevealed that earlier this year had the country 63 blood banks, and that donors who receive only 20 per cent are unpaid, volunteer being most donors for replacement
They recalled that every four minutes a woman dies at the global level from a hemorrhage at childbirth or caesarean section, and many of these deaths occur because in those moments of emergency are not available for enough pints of blood.
Explained that many deaths and severe disabilities product of haemorrhage in childbirth are preventable with the availability of safe to transfuse blood.
They argued that the safest blood is obtained following the recommended rules for the institutions - ing in moments of calm, much before that happens the emergency.
La Dr. Fernández said that another worrying situation is that some of the women who survive the postpartum hemorrhage enter one u000acondition in which blood loses its ability to clot, which also need blood products like plasma.
He added that if these products are not available the patients lost their uterus because the doctor is forced to perform a hysterectomy to stop the circle vicious.
He said postpartum hemorrhage is an emergency where not available time to search for and doing the triage of donor suitable.
The emergency often prevents monitoring of strict protocols to ensure the safety of the blood.
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