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By Fareeza HaniffThe National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) is experiencing yet another severe shortage of blood and an urgent appeal is being made to the public.Yesterday morning, the blood bank had only 45 units of blood, as opposed to its usual buffer stock of 170 units.Things are expected to get more complicated for the blood bank. Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has announced that the usual buffer stock is expected to increase to 200 units as the services expand within the health sector. This,Cheap Jerseys From China, so far,Cheap Jerseys China, is not the case.It was noted that the NBTS has never rapidly utilised the buffer stock as it has been doing in the last several months.At a press conference, yesterday,Cheap MLB Jerseys China, at the National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS) building, Hadfield Street, Minister Ramsammy said that he had predicted that by 2012, 12,000 units of blood maybe needed. This prediction, he noted, might very well become a reality before 2012.“The demand for this important life saving product has grown faster than my predictions. Our 2012 needs have been reached now, we have need for that now but our capacity to supply that is not there yet,” Dr. Ramsammy explained to media operatives.The projected need for blood at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for the end of the next two weeks has already been exhausted.This Minister Ramsammy said is a serious situation that requires immediate attention in order to maintain an adequate stock level of blood to meet the needs of the ailing public.However, although a severe shortage of the product is being experienced,Cheap China Jerseys, the Health Ministry is still bent on eliminating family replacement donors, another term used for forced donation.In this regard, Dr. Ramsammy said he does not want persons to be traumatised because their relatives need blood and they have to be responsible for finding donors.It was explained that the reason for the shortage of the product has to do with the recent fire at the Ministry of Health.According to Dr. Ramsammy, some persons have assumed that there is a halt to certain services. This is clearly evident, given that a number of organisations have cancelled their blood drives, as they believe that the Ministry of Health is not functioning.Voluntary donors, too,Wholesale China Jerseys, have desisted from going to the blood bank, and according to Dr. Ramsammy, this has resulted in the shortage of adequate blood.“If we are going to meet the normal demand for blood, we are going to need to have donations through drives or voluntary walk in donations that would amount to maintaining that stock.”He explained that blood cannot be bought or manufactured, and the blood bank has no other alternative than to rely entirely on blood drives and voluntary donations.“That means that lives are at risk and unlike the other part of our recovery process, that part cannot be recovered through an investment and so I am appealing to the Guyanese people to donate, because it is a serious shortage,” the Health Minister said.In kicking off the process of encouraging Guyanese to donate,Wholesale Jerseys, the staff at the Ministry of Health will be donating blood to ensure that the national buffer stock is maintained.According to Dr. Ramsammy, the shortage comes at a time when the hospitals are doing more surgical interventions and when services have expanded at both the public and private health institutions.