Feasts bring famine to blood donations

BEIJING - Despite the capital city suffering a blood shortage, many willing donors were turned down because they ate too much fatty food during Spring Festival.

Alerts have been issued by the Beijing Red Cross Blood Center due to critical need for blood and almost all blood types are needed.

"We saw a lot of people coming to donate blood in the past seven days but many tested as ineligible donors because they consumed too much oily food during the holidays," said a nurse surnamed Wang at a blood collecting van outside Ditan Park in Beijing.