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Article: China says blood enough for medical relief in quake-hit Sichuan Province
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 16, 2008
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China says blood enough for medical relief in quake-hit Sichuan
Province
BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Blood stocks in Sichuan Province, the
area hit hardest by Monday's magnitude 7.8 earthquake, can meet
clinical demand, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a statement
posted on its website on Friday.
More than 1.8 million milliliters of blood and 15 million
milliliters of plasma had been transferred to Sichuan Province as of
4 p.m. Friday, the statement said.
Almost half of the blood, or 974,000 milliliters, had been used
in medical treatment, it said. Reserves in local blood banks were