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Managing blood supplies during natural disasters, humanitarian emergencies, and pandemics: lessons learned from COVID-19.

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Affiliations

  • 1. Department of Pathology, Transfusion Medicine Division, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
      Authors
    • Van Denakker TA 1
    • Crowe EP 1
    • Goel R 1
    • Rai H 1
    • Tobian AAR 1
    • Bloch EM 1
    (6 authors)
  • 2. Department of Hematology, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
      Authors
    • Al-Riyami AZ 2
    (1 author)
  • 3. Lebanese Red Cross, Beirut, Lebanon.
      Authors
    • Feghali R 3
    (1 author)
  • 4. OneBlood, Scientific, Medical, Technical Direction, Orlando, FL, USA.
      Authors
    • Gammon R 4
    (1 author)
  • 5. Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation, Department of Transfusion medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
      Authors
    • So-Osman C 5
    (1 author)

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Expert Review of Hematology, 09 May 2023, 16(7):501-514
https://doi.org/10.1080/17474086.2023.2209716 PMID: 37129864 

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Abstract 

Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a historic public health crisis with widespread social and economic ramifications. The pandemic has also affected the blood supply, resulting in unprecedented and sustained blood shortages.

Areas covered

This review describes the challenges of maintaining a safe and sufficient blood supply in the wake of natural disasters, humanitarian emergencies, and pandemics. The challenges, which are accentuated in low- and high-income countries, span the impact on human capacity (affecting blood donors and blood collections personnel alike), disruption to supply chains, and economic sustainability. COVID-19 imparted lessons on how to offset these challenges, which may be applied to future pandemics and public health crises.

Expert opinion

Pandemic emergency preparedness plans should be implemented or revised by blood centers and hospitals to lessen the impact to the blood supply. Comprehensive planning should address the timely assessment of risk to the blood supply, rapid donor recruitment, and communication of need, measures to preserve safety for donors and operational staff, careful blood management, and resource sharing.

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