The Medical Superintendent of the Koforidua Regional Hospital, has observed that only 30 per cent of the 1,020 units of blood given our by the blood bank of the facility to patients have been replaced.
Dr Daniel Asare, said the situation places a lot of stress on the blood bank during emergencies, which leads to the death of patients.
Dr Asare was speaking at the observation of this year's World Blood Donors Day at the hospital on Tuesday.
He said only 605 units of blood have been received by the blood bank through voluntary blood donation.
Dr Asare appealed to religious organisations, corporate bodies and non-governmental organisations to donate either in cash or in kind to support the blood bank to intensify blood donation campaign in the Eastern Region.
Mr Samuel Morton, Senior Biomedical Scientist, who chaired the function, appealed to the second cycle and tertiary institutions in the
region to support the blood bank to mobilise voluntary blood donors to the hospital.
As part of the celebrations, Ms Abina Anima, a senior nurse of the hospital, who had donated blood 25 times and Ms Gillean Frazer Joof, another staff of the hospital who had donated blood nine times, were awarded.
Mr Emmanuel Okoh, Assistant Headmaster of Koforidua Secondary Technical Senior High School and Mr F. A. Bortes-Ghartey of the Seventh Day Adventist Training College of Education, who organised students to donate blood to the hospital were also awarded.