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There is a lack of blood in the hospital, so urgent patients are moving around the hospital or not getting timely surgery. This is not just a problem for small hospitals, but for large hospitals.

First, reporter Nam Ju-hyun reported the actual situation.

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In November last year, a patient with bowel bleeding visited an emergency department in a hospital in Seoul.

An urgent situation requires a blood transfusion in a hurry, but the hospital has requested that the patient be taken to Seoul National University Hospital.

[Professor of Department of Emergency Medicine, Hong Ki-Jung / Seoul National University Hospital: The transfusion should be done first and then stabilized, and then referred to our big hospital.

Patients who need to move to another small hospital after first aid may not have time to leave the emergency room because they do not have blood in their hospital.

[Yesul Lee / Seoul National University Hospital nurses: It's getting worse with bodily sensations. After all, patients are forced to go to university hospitals… .]

The National Cancer Center, which has many cancer patient surgeries, is particularly serious about lack of blood.

As of today (day 2), your AB blood reserves are only two days, while O is only three days.

Platelet blood, which is necessary for critically ill patients who do not stop bleeding, is more serious.

[Shim Jae-sung / Head of the National Cancer Center, Blood Bank: The stock is now 0. (Isn't there a single stock right now?) Yes, I don't have one.]

Aging demand for blood transfusions is slow, but changes in demographics reduce blood donations in the teens and twenties, raising concerns that blood shortages will continue to intensify in medical settings.

(Video coverage: Choi Ho-jun, Video editing: Jang Hyun-ki)

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