Then she rembered what the doctor had just explained. Shang Siling pulled her aside and whispered, "Doctor Li asked to inform you that we need to go to the blood center tomorrow to donate blood. Your cousin’s surgery requires blood, and the hospital’s blood bank is insufficient. We need family and friends to help out by donating blood."
The blood bank in a ga-city, especially in the Capital, is often not enough. The main reason is that patients from surrounding and other regions flock to the Capital to see renowned doctors. It’s not feasible to transfer blood from other places to the Capital due to high costs. The local blood donation in the Capital alone is hardly sufficient to et the demands of patients with complex and severe conditions from across the country seeking treatnt in the Capital.
Because of this, blood usage in clinical settings must be controlled. Blood banks only rush approval in cases of ergency when the patient urgently needs blood. At other tis, the blood bank advises hospitals to notify the patient’s family, asking them for family and friends to donate blood as a ans to replenish the blood bank’s shortage.
Family and friends’ mutual aid blood donation doesn’t an using the donated blood solely for their own family mber. Instead, it’s about exchanging the donated volu for an equivalent amount of blood usage for the patient. This is because, in non-ergency situations, the blood collected from donors must be tested for eligibility, processed several tis, and only then can it be used for patients in clinical settings, which involves a ti lag. Moreover, blood has a preservation period; once expired, it is useless. Processed blood will be used for clinical patients at the first opportunity and cannot be wasted.
For the reason ntioned above, Xiao Shugang’s situation doesn’t yet qualify as an ergency rescue; the surgery he is undergoing is a scheduled operation, so he and his family and friends must prepare blood as a precaution.
Xie Wanying thought, tomorrow she and her cousin-in-law could go to the blood center to donate blood, and if each donated four hundred, it would definitely be enough.
Shang Siling said to her, "I was thinking, tomorrow we can search near the blood center first; there should be people willing to donate blood for money. We can just pay them."
Hearing this, Xie Wanying was surprised. How could her cousin-in-law, a university teacher, not know that buying and selling blood is not allowed?
Shang Siling revealed the reason: "When your cousin needed blood for surgery at the Provincial People’s Hospital, there wasn’t enough. We were asked to donate, and I donated four hundred. His mother didn’t donate blood, claiming she couldn’t for so reason. Later, so of his colleagues helped him out by donating blood. Now, there are only two of us here, which is not enough."
The elder aunt didn’t donate blood for her son when he was in critical need, supposedly because soone told her she couldn’t. Likely, it was Zhou Ruoi who said sothing to her sister.
Ordinary people who don’t understand dicine tend to trust doctors’ words, and when different doctors speak, it’s logical to prioritize the words of a doctor who is a family mber.
When Zhou Ruoi said and did these things, she didn’t consider Xiao Shugang’s life as important. Also, in the Ding Family’s view of being doctors, as long as they aren’t the patient’s attending doctor, they bear no legal responsibility for what they say.
"Cousin-in-law, you don’t need to donate blood tomorrow. I’ll figure sothing out," Xie Wanying said. Her cousin-in-law’s previous blood donation was too recent, and she’s been overworked lately and isn’t in good health. Donating blood again could cause issues, so she mustn’t donate.
"So—" Shang Siling also felt helpless, suggesting spending money to solve the problem. "Let’s just pay. "
"No need, I’ll find soone to help donate blood for cousin. Don’t worry, cousin-in-law. This surgery is different from the last; it’s a planned operation. During the surgery, the doctors will control the patient’s blood loss within a certain range, so a lot of blood won’t be needed," Xie Wanying said.
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