Consequences of centralised blood bank policies in sub-Saharan Africa

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 7728, USA.
• ² Department of Surgery, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi.
• ³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 7728, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 7728, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Electronic address: anthchar@med.unc.edu.