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Kenya facing acute blood shortage

Barclays MD Jeremy Awori donating blood as the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service Director Dr. Josephine Githaiga looks on.

The Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service (KNBTS) has admitted that it failed to hit its target of 180,000 units of blood as envisaged in the period ending December 2017.

Instead, KNBTS collected 149,000 units, with details emerging that Kenya requires 400,000 units annually to be blood sufficient.

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