| No Elective Surgeries At KHMH |
| Tue, October 17, 2017 |
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The KHMH is the biggest hospital in Belize - but the Management says it has been forced to suspend elective surgery because of a blood shortage.
In a release, the national referral hospital says that there has been a shortage of available blood products for the past two and a half weeks, due, first to a limited blood supply and, second, to restrictions imposed by the Blood Bank which is controlled by the Ministry of Health.
The Ministry codes that there has been a shortage in the delivery of screening kits for blood and that has forced restrictions on the use of blood for transfusion. But the good news is that the shortage will be resolved this because the kits have arrived.
In the meantime, the KHMH says they have been able to continue life-saving surgeries and elective surgeries will resume as soon as possible.
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