This year alone, quite a few travellers have had the unpleasant surprise to be in a state of medical emergency and hearing from the hospital employees … “Sorry, we have to wait for a blood donor until we can perform the necessary surgery.” This is of course the type of surprise you don’t want to have where you are in such need and cannot even begin to think what to do in a country where you don’t know anybody. Because of that, many embassies have expats with rare blood types on stand-by, but what if you are located on an island with only locals and a handful of travellers and none of them can donate to you as your blood … Continue reading Before you travel the world, know your blood type