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Patients in Urgent Need of Blood Transfusions Left Stranded by Reagent Shortage

10 November 2026 by Limpho Sello For ten full days, patients requiring urgent blood transfusions could not receive this lifesaving treatment because the Lesotho Blood Transfusion Services (LBTS) had run out of reagents needed to test donated blood for HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. LBTS Manager Mahloli Ratsiu [...]