Operations suspended for lack of blood

Operations suspended for lack of blood

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, January 24 (Guillermo Fariñas, Cubanacán Press /
www.cubanet.org) - Various patients awaiting surgery in local hospitals
were told to return home as the operations could not be done because of
a lack of blood for transfusions.

Provincial radio station CMHW issued an appeal to listeners to donate
blood to replenish the hospital supply.

Sources at ministry of health told Ismel Iglesias Martínez, vice
president of the Independent Medical College of Villa Clara, that the
shortage resulted from the supply of blood which accompanied Cuban
doctors sent to Pakistan to treat earthquake victims.

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