Managing blood supplies during natural disasters, humanitarian emergencies, and pandemics: lessons learned from COVID-19.
Expert Rev Hematol
; 16(7): 501-514, 2023.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2320081
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.Keywords
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
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Natural Disasters
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Expert Rev Hematol
Journal subject:
Hematology
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
17474086.2023.2209716
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