Baucau, Desember 3, 2024 (Média Democracia) – The IX Government Policy through the Ministry of Health in its compromise will build a blood bank at the Horex Baucau Regional Hospital to ensure the availability of blood when patient families donate blood.
According to the Executive Director of Horex Baucau Regional Hospital, Claudino Ximenes said, Horex Baucau Regional Hospital does not have a blood bank to ensure the availability of blood. Therefore, through the IX government policy conveyed to the Ministry to build a blood bank so that patient families and the community can donate blood and be stored in that place, so that it can provide services to patients and pregnant women.
“At Horex Baucau Regional Hospital there is no blood bank to guarantee the availability of blood, therefore through government policy IX there is a plan to build a place here to guarantee the availability of blood, if the patient’s family or pregnant women need it. Technically at Horex Baucau Regional Hospital it is enough to increase the blood stock, but there is no place to guarantee the availability of blood, because the blood storage stock must be used for weeks to months, but unfortunately there is none here, so it is difficult for us to guarantee the availability of blood when there are patients who need it, because here we only depend on the patient’s family, there are no blood donors routinely provided for the hospital.” Said the Executive Director
He added that currently the Horex Baucau Regional Hospital has made a design plan to be submitted to the Ministry of Health, so that it can collect funds to build a blood bank in Baucau. Therefore, the Ministry of Health has supported the design and we have submitted BioQ and the funds. We are just waiting for approval. If everything is clear, in the near future we will implement it through the 2025 funds.
“When there is a patient’s family who needs blood type A, the hospital and the patient’s family try to find blood so that they can provide services to patients who need blood, so that it has an impact on us not being able to provide quick assistance to save someone’s life, when the patient’s family needs blood, we try to find blood, if there is a family who finds it then they come to donate blood, but when it is not found then they together with the hospital look for blood through the relevant Ministries such as schools, religion, PNTL and F-FDTL to donate blood to save the patient’s life.” He said
He explained further, what happens most often is that pregnant women give birth lose a lot of blood, and eventually die, because here incidents like this often happen to pregnant women who lose a lot of blood when giving birth, their lives cannot be saved, but we continue to try to find blood but none is found, our final solution is to immediately refer to the HNGV in Dili to get fast service.
Reported by : Tomas
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