They return blood donors because they continue without bags

They received up to 10 donations daily and at this time no more 

The state's blood banks are without bags for donations or reagents, which has made it necessary to return the donors. This situation has been maintained for more than two weeks in the hospital service of Dr. Rafael Medina Jiménez, Ana Teresa de Jesús Ponce Children's Materno and the José María Vargas hospital, putting the reserves at risk. 

An internal source of the peripheral blood bank, who preferred to be unidentified, explained that as long as there are no collection bags they will not receive donors. He also noted that the reserve is being used strictly only for emergencies that arrive at that hospital and that they are working in the same way on the other two state blood banks. 

María Guadalupe Rodríguez, 71, a patient with diabetic foot needs to be transfused and for more than a week her family members are looking for the way to take the donors in all the state banks, but they remain unanswered. 

Director of the blood bank of Tachira hospital resigns due to this The precarious conditions in which this service is found at the national level has forced managers to resign, because they can not offer patients and donors good care. 

Emir Roa, the director of the blood bank of the Central University Hospital "Antonio María Pineda" (Hcuamp), resigned as he refused to apply radiotherapy in subhuman conditions. "The facilities of this hospital are not in conditions to apply treatments to cancer patients," Roa said.