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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:26:29AM +0100, Giles Coochey wrote:
 
> To give an indication of the situation, the doctors came to us and said,
> "your father needs a transfusion", we said fine, and had an awkward moment,
> the thing is they didn't have the blood, and wouldn't source it themselves,
> so they lent us a cool-bag with an ice pack and we had to go round the city
> to go and find and buy human blood for the transfusion. We did find a couple
> of pints at the red cross, as it happened, they had four matching his blood
> type, but would only sell us two, despite us trying to barter and haggle.
> $USD50 per pint, in case you are wondering.
> 

I am told the situation in India is similar. As such I would imagine it to 
be common across a wide section of the globe.




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