Dusseldorf - A nightmare: you will be admitted to the hospital - and the doctors and nurses lack the life-blood!
Yet this vision of horror is not reality, but it threatens us all, if they will not soon be more blood donors. The NRW Ministry of Health sounded the alarm bell.
Minister Karl-Josef Laumann recommends urgent action: "In our country every day 3000 blood donations needed - but only three percent of the population donate blood. This is clearly not enough! "According to the German Red Cross (DRC) should hospitals because of lack of blood supply is already moving operations.
"The problem: Many regular donors drop out by reaching the age of 68 years, or health reasons. On the other hand can not be won yet younger in the same way as blood donors, "said the minister.
This assessment is confirmed by the spokesman for the Red Cross blood donation service in the West in Ratingen, Heinz Kapschak: "The situation is really dramatic! We need for the administrative districts of Cologne and Dusseldorf in 1200 units of blood each day - but have since May, on average only 800 per day. This means: We do not have day 30 to 40 percent in order to deliver the claimed requirements. "
Kapschak fears that the situation will soon be even more threatening: "In the second week of January we are threatened with a real" donor hole "- then start the clinics after the new year to operate again. In the first three months of the year, there is a huge demand! "
Also in Düsseldorf surgery clinics will already have been postponed due to lack of blood to confirm - that was, however, none of the hospitals surveyed by the EXPRESS spokesman. "Bottlenecks" vacate the Spokesman one course.
