Johannesburg — By December this year major private hospital group
Netcare will be switching to "bloodless medicine and surgery" via a
new Blood Conservation Programme in some of its hospitals.
Sensitive screening tests for HIV and other infectious conditions
have now resulted in much safer donor blood, but these tests are not
infallible.
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