Beijing’s end of the replacement blood donor policy left some patients struggling to obtain blood for urgent treatment, exposing deeper risks in China’s hospital and blood-supply system.

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The Patients in Despair

Pu Baozhen was a patient with aplastic anemia. On February 6th, 2018, her bone marrow transplant surgery was stopped after 10 minutes. Nobody has found the unexpected worse part is coming – Blood Shortage in Beijing. That morning, the hospital received a document. It stated: From February 10^th, 2018, the “Replacement Blood Donor Policy” would be abolished officially in Beijing. This put many patients who were in need of urgent blood transfusion in a bloodless situation. Read more