Overview
- DRK West reports stocks in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland covering only about one and a half days.
- In Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, supply for key types including O positive, O negative and A negative has fallen to under one day, according to DRK Nord-Ost.
- Brandenburg and other northern regions are down to roughly one to two days on hand, with warnings the situation could tighten further without immediate donations.
- Baden-Württemberg and Hesse have barely two days of reserves, with particular need for A negative as well as O positive and O negative.
- The DRK, university clinics and the ADAC are urging healthy adults to give blood now, noting Germany needs about 15,000 donations daily and that blood and platelets have short shelf lives.