{"id":63946,"date":"2014-07-11T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T07:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=63946"},"modified":"2014-07-11T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T07:09:21","slug":"blood-shortages-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/11\/blood-shortages-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Shortages this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) has had a hard time ensuring that a blood shortage is avoided this winter.<\/p>\n<p>However, with all efforts in place it seems the cold weather is keeping donors away.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Traditionally, the winter months are a difficult time due to schools and universities being on holiday as well as increase with illnesses and this has had a great impact on blood collection.<\/p>\n<p>This places SANBS under immense pressure to collect safe and good quality blood products.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The SANBS needs to maintain a minimum blood stock level of five days at all times by collecting 3000 units of blood per day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This needs to be done to meet the demand of the thousands of patients who are reliant on blood transfusions for their survival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is with only the help of the selfless blood donors that we will be able to ensure that patients who are reliant on blood transfusions will be to receive it,&#8221; explained Vanessa Raju, communications manager of SANBS.<\/p>\n<p>The SANBS is therefore appealing to people, particularly to regular donors, to not miss out on their next donation date.<\/p>\n<p>This will help boost the countries blood stock.<\/p>\n<p>A reminder of the minimum blood donor requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Ages between 16 and 65 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Weigh 50kg or more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Good health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Lead a sexually safe lifestyle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact 0800 11 90 31 to find the nearest fixed donor site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='778fdc47efd71c07f1e2b3480f1bd69c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANBS desperate to maintain minimum blood stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":63911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,2],"tags":[1282,984,8297,1257,1475,1051,1012,1003,979,2730],"class_list":["post-63946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news-headlines","tag-blood","tag-charity","tag-community-2","tag-donate","tag-donate-blood","tag-donations","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["blood","charity","community","donate","donate blood","donations","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}