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OAKLAND, Calif. – Surgeries in seven Bay Area hospitals may soon be postponed due to a critically low blood supply, the Stanford Blood Center announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The center is asking potential donors \u2014 especially those with type-O blood \u2014 to make a donation appointment today.<\/p>\n
“Recently we\u2019ve had several patients, including a patient needing a liver transplant, that have drawn heavily on our type-O blood supply,” Michelle Bussenius, spokesperson for the Stanford Blood Center said in a press release. “We are struggling to rebound from this usage and are asking the community to step forward and donate to help save the lives of others in our area.”<\/p>\n
Critically low <\/p>\n
Why you should care:<\/p>\n
The Stanford Blood Center supplies blood to seven hospitals in the area. To bolster the center\u2019s low supply, blood must be imported from other areas, but even with outside help, there\u2019s not enough blood.<\/p>\n
“Currently, we cannot even find enough blood to import,” Bussenius said. “Instead of importing, and facing shortages, we want to be able to rely on our community to provide all the blood needed for patients in the area.”<\/p>\n
A press release from the center states that only four percent of the Bay Area\u2019s eligible donors actually give blood.<\/p>\n
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The backstory:<\/p>\n
The Stanford Blood Center is a nonprofit, community-based blood collection and research center that operates three fixed-site donation centers in Palo Alto and Mountain View, and has mobile operations across the Bay Area.<\/p>\n
Anyone interested in making an appointment can do so by visiting the\u00a0center\u2019s website<\/a>, or calling (650)-723-7831.<\/p>\n The Source: The Stanford Blood Center<\/p>\n Health<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article OAKLAND, Calif. – Surgeries in seven Bay Area hospitals may soon be postponed due to a critically…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1570,100,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-317815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-health","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}