11 Aug 2021

Critical blood shortage in Fiji

From , 6:01 am on 11 August 2021

Blood stock all across Covid-19 stricken Fiji is critically low and volunteers have had to reach out to their personal contacts over the weekend to ask for blood donations.

Although the Fiji National Blood Service has a regular pool of blood donors, which kept blood supply sufficient, the current challenges of Covid-19 is keeping donors away, which is a huge problem for the country's three largest hospitals.

Our correspondent in Fiji, Lice Movono, has more.

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Photo: Artem Zhitenev / RIA Novosti