27/06/2022
Irish Blood Transfusion Service makes urgent national appeal for blood donations - additional 5,000 donations needed over next 8 weeks
In an effort to increase blood supplies the IBTS will run walk-in clinics for this week only. This means that all donation clinics throughout the country will accept walk-in donors including our clinics at Stillorgan in Dublin and St. Finbarr’s in Cork which will operate on a dual basis of appointment and walk-in donors. Our hope is that the extra flexibility of walk-in clinics will enable more donors to attend. Our target is to get an additional 5,000 donations over the next 8 weeks so we can significantly increase our blood supply levels.
We are asking regular donors who are texted this week to please attend their nearest walk-in clinic and new donors should register their interest on giveblood.ie, so the IBTS can contact them about attending a future clinic, when we are next at a location near them. For scheduled clinics after this week we are urging donors to book an appointment as usual and in particular to consider giving blood if they are eligible before they go on holidays.
We appreciate it may take longer than normal to donate at walk-in clinics during this critical appeal. We sincerely apologise for that and would ask donors to bear with us. We feel this is a necessary step to take so we can bolster the supply.
