Reserves of Rh-negative blood in Thailand are critically low, a challenge that may only be met with the assistance of the worldwide community.
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 comparability with around 15% of Westerners. There are only around How-to in Thailand with this uncommon blood group.
Issarang Nuchprayoon, adviser to the Thai Red Cross nationwide 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 type blood pool could trigger help to be delayed.”
With Rh-negative blood from Thai donors alone not being enough to assist the needs of foreign visitors, Issarang is encouraging the Western group with this blood kind to donate frequently.
Dr Issarang was addressing at a Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) Wednesday throughout a talk entitled Death Without Donors: Rh-negative blood rarity in Thailand.
Michael Landess, a former ICU nurse informed the club that to increase Rh-negative blood reserves in Thailand, the nation should increase the number of donors. One solution can be to get rid of the long-standing tests for CJD (mad cow disease) for donors from the United Kingdom, Ireland and France, which are an impediment to participation by abroad residents and a conspicuous waste of money and time.
Increasing blood reserves is the final word solution to saving extra lives. Landess said…
“Right now, we can only assist these in the ‘intermediate trauma’ stage who’ve injuries however can nonetheless reside for a while with no blood transfusion. It may take one or two days from the time an injury occurs to the time blood is sourced from donors and transported to a hospital.”
Issarang said all current publicity material used to recruit blood donors is printed in Thai and only communicated to Thai individuals.
Issarang said…
“But now we see a possibility to get more blood from Western visitors.”