Morocco’s current national blood stock is only sufficient for four more days, confirmed the official spokesperson for the government this Thursday in a press conference.
News of a national blood shortage across Moroccan hospitals and health facilities was confirmed this week, by the Ministry of Health.
Baitas announced that the current available blood reserve amounts to 4,200 blood bags, which is well well below the international safety standard.
The official highlighted that this reserve covers only 4 days, indicating, on the other hand, that a campaign, launched by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, will hopefully amount to more blood donations.
The minister explained that in order to establish a safe blood supply that covers at least 7 days, the Ministry of Health is carrying out a series of awareness campaigns aimed at collecting more than 1,000 bags of blood per day, in order to reach the goal of 5,000 blood bags.
The Minister of Health and Social Protection had previously emphasized that the strategy adopted by the National Center for Blood Transfusion between 2021 and 2023 is based on launching donation campaigns based on the policy of proximity, pointing at the same time to the trend towards developing a system to remind donors to donate blood, via telephone and electronic messages.
According to sources working within a blood transfusion facility in Rabat, “people are not donating much partially due to emerging worries about viruses.”
“These fears are unfounded, as no case has been detected in Morocco as of this date,” said the same source, adding that “after the spread of a virus, or even mounting worries about possible transmissible infections, blood donations drop,” explained the same source.
Following the COVID-19 outbreak in Morocco, blood donations have dropped significantly. However, this past month of Ramadan has been a blessing for the Casablanca Regional Center among others, which has been able to improve its stock thanks to the growing influx of donors.
This was mainly thanks to both awareness campaigns, in addition to a stable epidemiological situation in the country.
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