{"id":93808,"date":"2026-09-07T07:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93808"},"modified":"2026-09-07T07:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:43:38","slug":"urgent-plea-for-blood-donors-as-fears-grow-over-sickle-cell-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/urgent-plea-for-blood-donors-as-fears-grow-over-sickle-cell-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent plea for blood donors as fears grow over sickle cell treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA262fms.img?w=768&h=512&m=6&x=411&y=91&s=157&d=157\" alt=\"Black people are much more likely than average to have the type of blood needed for sickle cell patients (NHS Blood and Transfusion Service)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NHS is currently able to meet only around half the demand for blood required to treat patients with sickle cell disease, according to health experts.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/diseases-and-conditions\/urgent-plea-for-blood-donors-as-fears-grow-over-sickle-cell-treatment\/ar-AA2bGX5V?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a9e654e1d2d4701974ec5945b76e4fe&ei=40\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The NHS is currently able to meet only around half the demand for blood required to treat patients with sickle cell disease,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sickle-cell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/donate-blood.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93810,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93808\/revisions\/93810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}