The need for blood is great for the Christmas and New Year holidays as fewer leave blood during this period.

- Right now we have a shortage situation. We need more donors given all the red days when we have closed at the blood centers in Gothenburg. Now before Christmas, we want an excess of blood to pass on patient safety, says Lena Lyxe, medically responsible physician at transfusion medicine at Sahlgrenska.

Blood is needed for patients affected by accidents or trauma, but also for others.

"The great need for blood has patients being treated for cancer or other chronic diseases," she says, and also highlights newborn children as a group in need of blood.

A joint action

To get more people wanting to donate blood, Lena Luxe comes with a call.

- You do something good for a fellow human being. One day you may need a blood bag yourself. It is a solidarity act that we would like you to think about at an early age, and then you can be blood donors well into the years, she says.

Watch Lena Luxury talk about the anemia in the clip.