The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is to hold two blood donation clinics in Clare next week.
The clinics come at a time when blood supplies are under pressure. The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has had to import blood from the UK recently because of a current shortage of supply here… This is the fourth time in the last 18 months that blood has been imported from the UK
https://clarechampion.ie/two-blood-donation-clinics-to-take-place-in-clare-next-week/
The National Health Service in the United Kingdom has “critically low” blood stocks and says it “urgently” needs people to donate blood.
The shortage has gotten so bad that officials say hospitals may begin postponing some elective surgeries…
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1128504924/uk-blood-shortage-surgeries-delayed
Hold on. If the UK’s postponing operations due to lack of blood how can they keep supplying Ireland?
h/t Dawntless