{"id":207531,"date":"2025-09-18T18:50:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-faces-blood-shortage-donations-urged-at-engine-bleed-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:50:57","slug":"namibia-faces-blood-shortage-donations-urged-at-engine-bleed-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-faces-blood-shortage-donations-urged-at-engine-bleed-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Faces Blood Shortage, Donations Urged At Engine Bleed 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Namibians have been encouraged to donate blood as the country only had seven days&#8217; worth of blood in stock on Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The goal is to maintain a 12-day reserve to comfortably meet hospital needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">This was said by Blood Transfusion Service of Namibia (NamBTS) education officer Frieda Vatileni-Asino at the Engine Bleed 2025 event on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Engine Bleed is a blood drive held in collaboration with NamBTS and the Bikers Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509180070.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibians have been encouraged to donate blood as the country only had seven days&#8217; worth of blood in stock on Saturday. The goal is to maintain a 12-day reserve to comfortably meet hospital needs. This was said by Blood Transfusion Service of Namibia (NamBTS) education officer Frieda Vatileni-Asino at the Engine Bleed 2025 event on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,40878,8309,8642,20552,5080,4706,724,257,9467,254,6206],"class_list":["post-207531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bleed","tag-blood","tag-donations","tag-engine","tag-faces","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-shortage","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}