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Operations suspended for lack of blood
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, January 24 (Guillermo
Fariñas, Cubanacán Press /
www.cubanet.org) - Various patients awaiting
surgery in local hospitals were told to
return home as the operations could not
be done because of a lack of blood for transfusions.
Provincial radio station CMHW issued an
appeal to listeners to donate blood to replenish
the hospital supply.
Sources at ministry of health told Ismel
Iglesias Martínez, vice president
of the Independent Medical College of Villa
Clara, that the shortage resulted from the
supply of blood which accompanied Cuban
doctors sent to Pakistan to treat earthquake
victims.
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