Steps are now being taken to have other more accessible spaces for blood transfusion activities and even the institution mentioned above will also be relocated, he said.

Regarding the decentralization of blood transfusion services, Noël explained earlier that the promise to establish more collection stations in the country was impossible to fulfill.

Haiti’s Minister of Public Health and Population, Bertrand Sinal, said upon taking office that blood transfusion would be a priority, attaching great importance to the deconcentration of services.

Recently, the Haitian organization Konbit San Pou San called for the relocation of the National Blood Transfusion Center, as the institution is at risk from gang violence in the nation.

“As in the case of the institutions in the center of Port-au-Prince, those located in Turgeau and Canapé-Vert must be relocated before it is too late,” a letter from the humanitarian organization stressed.

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