{
  "id": 435155,
  "title": "17.4 lakh blood components discarded in 2025 despite record collection",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/17-4-lakh-blood-components-discarded-in-2025-despite-record-collection",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-10T02:11:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ETHealthworld",
    "slug": "ethealthworld",
    "url": "https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/17-4-lakh-blood-components-discarded-in-2025-despite-record-collection/133077217"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Available official data indicate that China and India are among the world's largest blood collection programmes. In 2025, India collected 15.71 million units of blood, while China collected 25.5 million units, according to China's National Health Commission.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}