Although the Fiji National Blood Service has a regular pool of blood donors which kept blood supply sufficient, the current challenges of the country's Covid outbreak is keeping donors away, which is a huge problem for the country's three largest hospitals. And this is further exacerbated because of the fact that there's sort of fear around approaching medical facilities to donate blood. Reaching outThere have been times in the past when the Fijian Blood Bank has been depleted and patients at government facilities have had to reach out to their family members to donate blood. The organisation says it is working to ensure blood donors know of safe locations where they can donate blood. "As such we need asymptomatic people to donate blood.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 10, 2021 18:28 UTC