Reserves of Rh-negative blood in Thailand are critically low, a problem that may only be met with the assistance of the international neighborhood.
Like most Asian nations, Thailand has a really low prevalence of Rh-negative blood, with some suggesting as few as three in each 1,000 Thais have this blood kind, in comparison with round 15% of Westerners. There are solely around 20,000 folks in Thailand with this uncommon blood group.
Issarang Nuchprayoon, adviser to the Thai Red Cross national blood centre, said…
“The disparity in numbers might provide challenges for treating Western vacationers with this blood sort. In emergencies that require blood transfusions, a shortage of Rh-negative sort blood pool may cause assistance to be delayed.”
With Rh-negative blood from Thai donors alone not being sufficient to assist the needs of overseas guests, Issarang is encouraging the Western group with this blood type to donate frequently.
Dr Issarang was addressing at a Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) Wednesday during a talk entitled Death Without Donors: Rh-negative blood rarity in Thailand.
Instantly , a former ICU nurse told the club that to extend Rh-negative blood reserves in Thailand, the nation should enhance the number of donors. One resolution can be to get rid of the long-standing tests for CJD (mad cow disease) for donors from the United Kingdom, Ireland and France, that are an obstacle to participation by overseas residents and a conspicuous waste of time and money.
Increasing blood reserves is the last word answer to saving more lives. Landess said…
“Right now, we are ready to only assist those in the ‘intermediate trauma’ stage who have injuries but can still live for some time with no blood transfusion. It could take one or two days from the time an damage happens to the time blood is sourced from donors and transported to a hospital.”
Issarang mentioned all current publicity materials used to recruit blood donors is published in Thai and only communicated to Thai people.
Issarang said…
“But now we see an opportunity to get more blood from Western visitors.”g