{"id":914100,"date":"2022-01-06T22:51:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/06\/blood-shortage-in-nairobi-after-students-take-holiday-break\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T22:51:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:51:13","slug":"blood-shortage-in-nairobi-after-students-take-holiday-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/blood-shortage-in-nairobi-after-students-take-holiday-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood shortage in Nairobi after students take holiday break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/yvwvsxwf9tunmpkjcb61d72fbd94cbb.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Person donating blood <\/strong> [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">The Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service (KNBTS) has begun a three-day blood donation exercise in Nairobi County following a shortage recorded after the December holidays.\n<\/p>\n<p>Festus Koech, the KNBTS regional manager, said the exercise is targeting major blood donors to compensate for a shortage that was recorded during the December holiday period. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy the donors are streaming in for the exercise and I hope we will collect enough units to bridge the shortage that is being experienced in Nairobi and beyond,\u201d said Koech.\n<\/p>\n<p>Koech said his team is optimistic they will collect up to 500 units of blood by the end of the exercise.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"rX-3llca9NI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Banking on Blood: Shortage of blood in the country\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rX-3llca9NI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>He noted that\u00a0the shortage was experienced since universities and colleges had closed for the holidays.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe normally rely on students, mostly in colleges and universities. All of them closed for holidays so we don\u2019t have a lot of places to visit to collect blood,\u201d said Koech, adding that student donors are safe and in most cases are willing to donate.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The exercise will run from today until Saturday outside the Kenya National Archives in the city centre, as well as at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH).\n<\/p>\n<p>According to KNBTS, the country requires at least 600,000 units of blood per year to meet demand, but the target is hardly reached.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>As a result of frequent blood shortages, patients who need blood transfusion are often forced to seek alternative sources.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"justify-content-start\">\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nKenya National Blood Transfusion Service<br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nBlood Transfusion<br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001433672\/blood-shortage-in-nairobi-after-students-take-holiday-break\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Person donating blood [Jenipher Wachie, Standard] The Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service (KNBTS) has begun a three-day blood donation exercise in Nairobi County following a shortage recorded after the December holidays. Festus Koech, the KNBTS regional manager, said the exercise is targeting major blood donors to compensate for a shortage that was recorded during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}