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Family's Terror as Son Loses Seven Litres of Blood
Elliott Wills says donations saved his life after he lost seven litres of blood and now needs regular transfusions.
- During National Blood Week, 13-year-old Elliott Wills from Cornwall is urging more people to donate blood, specifically highlighting the critical need for O negative and B negative blood types.
- Elliott lives with spherocytosis, a rare blood disorder requiring routine transfusions; last October, complications following surgery caused a main artery to burst, leading him to lose seven litres of blood.
- The NHS requires more than 155,000 new donors this year to meet patient needs, though only eight per cent of the population has O negative blood yet it accounts for around 16 percent of hospital orders.
- Back at Penair School and playing football, Elliott is preparing to celebrate his 14th birthday on June 29, an occasion his family credits to the emergency O negative blood he received during surgery.
- NHS Blood and Transplant reports that regular donors with O negative and B negative blood have dropped 5% since 2020, prompting officials to encourage new donors to register today and discover if they possess the missing blood types patients need.
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