Recently, the Australian Red Cross (Australian Red Cross) launched the "Blood Lightning Wars" (Blood Blitz), called on people to donate blood in order to increase the supply of blood during the Christmas season and avoid too low supply of life-saving blood.
During Christmas and New Year's Day, the Australian Red Cross needed 4500 blood donations to meet its blood supply, the Australian Federation reported.
Spokesman Walsh (Helen Walsh) said: "We started the" Blood Lightning Wars "to remind people that we still have a lot of blood needs in this Christmas season. And hope that people who can donate blood will make an appointment to donate blood this Christmas season. "
"in the coming month, we hope to welcome 10,000 new blood donors to meet Australia's growing demand for blood," she said. We are now at the best time to donate blood. "
Walsh says Christmas season blood donation will boost the supply of vital platelets. Platelets are preserved for only five days and help prevent internal bleeding in patients.
"it takes four people to donate blood to make a bag of platelets for patients, because the platelets are only five days old, so we can't store them in large quantities before Christmas," she said. "timing is very important. "during Boxing Day, (Boxing Day) and New Year's Day are the most at risk of platelet stocks, so we need a large number of blood donors to ensure that patients have access to this important product."
