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Benin: Blood shortage proves deadly
Fear, a lack of blood donation supplies and ill-trained health staff have led to a dangerous blood shortage in Benin, said the head of the country's blood donor association.
Patients seeking blood at Benin hospitals face dwindling supplies, similar these Nepalese who turned to blood donation camps in 2007. (Image: Subodh Singh/IRIN)
“If the outcry over blood shortages were the same as the uproar over AIDS, we could avoid a lot of damage and death,” said Rynce Agassoussi, the president of the Beninese Association of Blood Donors. He said it is hard to know how many people die because of blood loss because hospitals do not indicate that as a cause of death.
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