{"id":231657,"date":"2025-02-20T07:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T11:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=231657"},"modified":"2025-02-20T09:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T13:01:42","slug":"national-health-service-launches-mobile-blood-donation-unit-amidst-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/02\/20\/national-health-service-launches-mobile-blood-donation-unit-amidst-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Senasa health insurance provider launches mobile blood donation unit amidst shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Donacion-sangre-El-Dia-1024x680.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231686\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Donacion-sangre-El-Dia-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Donacion-sangre-El-Dia-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Donacion-sangre-El-Dia-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Donacion-sangre-El-Dia-1536x1019.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Donacion-sangre-El-Dia.png 2040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic faces a critical shortage of blood, requiring a high 800 pints daily. A significant portion of these cases stemmed from traffic accidents, underscoring the devastating impact of road incidents on the nation&#8217;s blood supply, El Dia reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, the National Health Insurance Provider (Senasa) has launched a mobile blood donation unit to address the urgent need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Santiago Hazim, the director of Senasa, highlighted the alarming statistic that over 100,000 Senasa members required blood transfusions last year. &#8220;This data reveals the extent to which our members required blood or blood products due to traffic accidents in 2024,&#8221; Hazim explained. &#8220;Every drop of blood is crucial in emergencies, and your donation can make a life-saving difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mobile blood donation unit will be available from 8:30am onwards, providing a convenient opportunity for citizens to contribute to this vital cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/el-pais-requiere-800-pintas-de-sangre-por-dia\/\">El Dia <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 February 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic faces a critical shortage of blood, requiring a high 800 pints daily. A significant portion of these cases stemmed from traffic accidents, underscoring the devastating impact of road incidents on the nation&#8217;s blood supply, El Dia reports. In response, the National Health Insurance Provider (Senasa) has launched a mobile blood donation unit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/02\/20\/national-health-service-launches-mobile-blood-donation-unit-amidst-shortage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231688,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231657\/revisions\/231688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}