Re: blood sold by government hospitals

The costly charges on those blood by hospital to recipient (patients
who need these blood during surgery) had in fact, piss-off alot of
would-be blood donor...

These blood donor would then tell themselves, why should i give my
blood 'FOC' and those gov buggers would charged patient for it....that
come by thousands for each blood transfusion.....

kilometric wrote:
> I just wonder why government hospitals here charged hospital patients money
> when doctors ordered blood transfusion to be given to patients when if fact,
> blood are often than not, either drawn from patients itself, or donated by
> the public, or from the blood bank itself.
>
> Sometimes you can see patients or family members get worried about the
> amount of blood transfusion the patients they will be getting since every
> packet of blood is going to cost them money, and the more blood it flows
> into the patient, the more they will feel money is draining out of them.
>
> If iron pill (given after every blood donation) is free, why can't patients
> be given free iron pill instead of costly packets of blood ?
>
> Is this another scam when free blood donated = S$100 per 250 ml after going
> through government hospitals system ?

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