Blood shortage in Ivory Coast: symptom of a sick health system
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By: François Hume-Ferkatadji Follow
In Côte d'Ivoire, doctors and patients regularly encounter difficulties in obtaining blood bags.
The country experiences a structural shortage of hemoglobin, which reaches critical levels during school holidays.
Every year, patients die after families or medical teams fail to find blood in the time needed.
There are no official figures about the number of deaths attributable to this failure.
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