Blood bank

Hospitals say blood shortages will delay operations

Shortages of blood have intensified over the summer, sources say, with some hospitals finding themselves obliged to postpone scheduled operations.

Evangelismos, the capital's largest hospital, is a case in point. According to the head of the workers' union, Ilias Sioras, the situation at Evangelismos is critical.

Serbia to set up four blood distribution centres, reproductive cell bank

BELGRADE - Under the new law on transfusion medicine, passed by the Serbian parliament on Tuesday, the country's 47 hospital blood banks for transfusion services will be replaced by four centres that will be authorised for blood collection, processing, testing and distribution.