Caála- The municipal hospital in Caála, Huambo province, is short of blood to cope with the number of patients in need of transfusions to save human lives, a situation that is worrying the municipal health authorities.
Speaking to ANGOP today, the head of the haemotherapy services at the Caála municipal hospital, Isabel Ngueve, said the breakdown in blood stock is due to the increase in transfusions in recent days, which results in a permanent lack of volunteer donors.
She said that the hospital carries out an average of around 100 transfusions a week, mostly to patients coming from distant areas, often without companions to donate blood and arriving with a complicated clinical picture and very low haemoglobin due to malaria.
She said that the institution has 30 permanent volunteer donors, but due to a lack of incentives many have stopped donating.
"We call on civil society organisations, politicians and churches to join this noble cause of donating blood to save human lives," she asked.
She recalled that families are currently the main donors to save the life of their relative, a situation that needs to be reversed by everyone in the future through awareness campaigns, with a view to guaranteeing safe donation without the risk of genetic contamination, essentially.
The municipal hospital in Caála, created in 1970, provides services in various specialities, including paediatrics, maternity, obstetrics, stomatology, nutrition, haemotherapy, gynaecology, surgery, mental health, ophthalmology, orthopaedics and otorhinolaryngology.
Located in the western corridor of Huambo province, the municipality of Caála has an estimated population of 392,000 inhabitants, spread across the communes of Catata, Cuima, Calenga and Sede. MLV/JSV/PLB/DAN/DOJ
