10 November 2025
Current blood stocks barely cover one week of the needs of Luxembourg’s hospitals. The Luxembourg Red Cross is calling on everyone who wishes to help patients and accident victims to come and donate blood.
The recent school holidays and the many respiratory infections over the past few weeks — preventing regular donors from giving blood — have caused a sharp drop in the blood reserves available for Luxembourg’s hospitals.
Stocks, already under strain for several months, are now clearly below the minimum level needed to maintain a stable situation between now and the end of the year.
The Luxembourg Red Cross urges everyone who can donate to do so in the coming days.
Blood donations can be made at the Blood Transfusion Centre (42, boulevard Joseph II, Luxembourg):
Free parking is available at 44, boulevard Joseph II.
At the Esch-Belval Medical Centre (3–5 avenue du Swing):
Collection sites are closed on public holidays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
The goal is to return as quickly as possible to a normal stock level of about 15 days’ supply — approximately 750 blood bags.
« Our blood stocks have been on a knife-edge for several months. In recent days, they have become critically low and would not allow us to respond effectively in an emergency. Moreover, December is often a difficult month for blood donation… while the demand from the healthcare system does not decrease in the same way. Patients and accident victims continue to need support, even – and especially – during the holiday season. That’s why we are calling today on everyone who can and wishes to help to come and donate.» warns Anne Schuhmacher, Director of the Blood Transfusion Centre.