Blood shortage forces Utah healthcare providers to make difficult choices

Utah’s largest healthcare providers are forced to make tough choices, including postponing major surgeries because of a “critical blood shortage.”

Peter Beverly, 59, was scheduled to finally receive a piece of his son’s liver last week. The Taylorsville grandfather suffers from non-alcohol-related liver disease.

“We are taking it a day at a time, some days are good, some days are bad,” Peter Beverly said.

The day before surgery, doctors canceled the organ transplant. If something went wrong, there wouldn’t be enough blood.

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