No more safety net, Our Blood Institute declares emergency blood shortage

On June 17, Our Blood Institute declared an emergency blood shortage in Oklahoma with an urgent need to help local hospitals.

“Oklahoma, we’ve got a problem,”as the OBI system said the O-negative blood inventory recently dropped to 65 units systemwide – less than a day’s worth of supply.

The need for O- negative blood is huge with it being the universal donor it can be given to anyone and is often used in emergency situations…

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