Sickle cell: Black donors urged to give blood to help treat patients

A record 250 blood donations are needed every day to treat sickle cell disease.

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Sickle cell mostly affects people of black heritage and ethnically-matched blood gives the best treatment. NHS Blood and Transplant say this is due to patients living longer and the increased use of complete blood transfusions, which has improved patient outcomes.It is clinically safe for patients to be treated with O negative - the universal blood type - but that can lead to complications in the long term.Lanre Ogundimu, from south London, has sickle cell and nearly died in 2018 after having a reaction to a donor's blood.

The radio producer said: "I can't receive blood as a standard treatment any more. Well-matched blood from within the black community can be the difference between life or death.

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