Every day, patients walk into hospitals relying on something most of us take for granted: a steady supply of blood. When it isn’t there, care is delayed, surgeries are postponed, and lives hang in the balance.
Right now, the region is facing an invisible crisis: a blood supply shortage.
Most people think of a public health crisis as something sudden and visible, like fires, floods, or major emergencies where the community steps in to help. But some of the most serious crises aren’t loud at all. They happen quietly, behind hospital doors, long before the public realizes there is a problem…