Venezuela faces a terrible new crisis: a critical shortage of blood

CARACAS, Venezuela -- In Venezuela, getting sick has never been more deadly. Medicines from antibiotics to chemotherapy drugs have become increasingly scarce here in recent years. Public hospitals ask patients' families to supply bed sheets and syringes. HIV patients have gone months without their drugs, and transplant patients have died without the immunosuppressants they need […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2018/03/08/venezuela-faces-a-terrible-new-crisis-a-critical-shortage-of-blood/