What's going on? (Blood supplies)

While visiting my mum in the local hospital, I bumped into a friend on
the a surgical team there. He was a tad pissed off because they had been
told to cancel all but essential operations in the near future to save
on blood supplies in case of an imminent emergency.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Mick Whittingham

What's going on is it's summer. Donors are on holiday. Stocks fall.

Happens every year. Nothing to see here, move along, move along.

 

Looks like you were right I just picked this up off of Guardian
archives:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1274025,00.html

Didn't seem to appear this morning or afternoon though.

 

Stritchy wrote

They won't take mine any more.

 

Well I'm gonna give blood tommorow

HTH

 

Linger wrote

**** nose.

I have not heard that one before.

 

Why not, I thought giving blood was good for heart attacks?

 

Also, with one fell swoop any blood donor who has received blood in the last
25 years must not donate any more. Something to do with the (alleged)
transmission of CJD.

 

says...

We've also got rid of some evil, poisonous shit along the way, eh Des.

 

Please do not feed the trolls.

 

Please do not be a troll

 

Please do not be a troll.

 

Des says...

I came to settle in Britain, after living in other places all around the
world. I've also worked in the US and I wouldn't want to live anywhere
else but here, except maybe Malta when I retire.

 

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They've had mine until October
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says...

But your opinion sucks.

 

steve auvache wrote in

Is this a coming out post?

"You should never give blood if:

1 You carry the hepatitis B virus, the hepatitis C virus or the HIV
virus.
2 You're a man who's had sex with another man, even "safe sex" using a
condom.
3 You've ever worked as a prostitute.
4 You've ever injected yourself with drugs - even once."
https://secure.blood.co.uk/c11_cant.asp

 

Do so in a french newsgroup and I'd be cool with it, however this is a
..uk newsgroup.

Perhaps you could simply stop being such a clown.

 

People who have spent more than 6 months in the UK can't give blood
here in Canada. It's quite a common restriction, I believe.

 

wessie wrote

What is it with all these coming out posts? Concerned about your
masculinity are you?

Mine falls into the "never again" category and is because I have had
major heart surgery.