Then she remembered what the doctor had just said. Shang Siling pulled her to the side and whispered, "Doctor Li called me and said that we need to go to the blood center to donate blood tomorrow. Your cousin needs blood for surgery, but the blood bank at the hospital is not enough, so we need relatives and friends to donate blood together."

Blood banks in megacities, especially the capital, often have insufficient blood reserves. The main reason is that patients from surrounding areas and other regions flock to the capital to seek medical treatment from famous doctors. It is impossible to transfer blood from other places to the capital, as the cost is too high. The amount of blood donated in the capital alone is simply not enough to meet the number of patients with difficult and serious diseases who come to the capital for medical treatment.

Based on this, the amount of blood used in the clinic must be controlled. Only when the patient is in critical condition and needs blood urgently, the blood station will approve it urgently. At other times, the blood station advocates that the hospital notify the patient's family and ask their relatives and friends to donate blood to make up for the lack of blood in the blood bank of the blood station.

Mutual blood donation by relatives and friends does not mean that the blood donated by relatives and friends is used by their own family members, but rather that the amount of blood donated is exchanged for the amount of blood used by the patient. This is because in general, non-emergency situations, the blood collected from the blood donor needs to be checked to see if it is qualified, and after several treatments, it can be used by clinical patients, so there is a time difference. Moreover, blood has a shelf life and is useless after it expires. The processed blood will be used by clinical patients as soon as possible and cannot be wasted.

Based on the above reasons, Xiao Shugang is not in an emergency rescue situation for the time being, and the surgery he is about to undergo is an elective surgery. He and his relatives and friends can only prepare blood for his surgery just in case.

Xie Wanying thought that if she and her cousin's wife went to the blood station to donate blood tomorrow, four hundred yuan each would definitely be enough.

Shang Siling said to her, "I've thought about it. Let's go to the blood center tomorrow and look around the blood station. There should be people willing to donate blood. We can just pay some money then."

Xie Wanying was surprised to hear her cousin's words. As a university teacher, didn't her know that this was selling blood and buying blood, which was not allowed?

Shang Siling explained the reason: "When your cousin had an operation at the Provincial People's Hospital, he didn't need enough blood, so he asked us to donate. I donated about 400. His mother didn't donate blood. I don't know who told her that she couldn't donate. Later, his colleagues helped him donate blood to tide him over the difficulties. Now there are only two of us here, it won't work, it's definitely not enough."

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My cousin's aunt refused to donate blood for her son when his life was in danger and he needed blood. Who told her not to donate? It's easy to imagine that it was probably Zhou Ruomei who said something to her sister.

Ordinary people who don’t understand medicine can only believe what doctors say, and among all the doctors, they will definitely choose their relatives who are doctors.

Zhou Ruomei didn't take Xiao Shugang's life seriously when she did these things and said these words. Also, according to the Ding family's idea of ​​doctors, as long as they are not the patient's attending physician, they don't have to bear legal responsibility for what they say.

"Cousin, you don't have to donate blood tomorrow. I'll think of a way." Xie Wanying said. It was too short a time since my cousin's last donation, and she has been very busy lately and her health is not very good. If she donates blood again, something might happen. She can't let her donate blood again.

"So..." Shang Siling had no choice but to spend money to avoid disaster, "Let's just pay some money."

"No need, I will find someone to donate blood for my cousin, don't worry, cousin's wife. My cousin's surgery this time is different from the last time, it is a surgery done according to plan. During the operation, the doctor will control the patient's bleeding within a certain range, and not a lot of blood will be needed." Xie Wanying said.