Donors fail to give blood over long delays

LIFE-SAVING donors left a clinic in a mid-west hotel without giving blood because of excessive waiting delays.

Almost 170 potential donors went to the Irish Blood Transfusion Service’s clinic at Kilmurry Lodge Hotel, Castletroy, on Tuesday last, but a large number left without giving blood because of delays of three hours due to staff shortages.

IBTS Donor Services office manager, Jim Shanahan, said the recent delay was due to the nationwide public service embargo on staff recruitment and it should not have happened.