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The Irish Blood Transfusion service will be making contact with 90,000 Irish blood donors over the possibility that they may have developed anaemia after donating blood, thanks to faulty equipment.
The equipment may have failed to detect low haemoglobin levels in donors, causing them to develop anaemia after donating blood, according to RTÉ.
The period during which the equipment was faulty was July 2014 to November 2015. All donors from this period, as well as regular donors, are being contacted and advised to visit their GPs to be tested for anaemia – a deficiency of haemoglobin in the blood.
Bloody hell.
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