Blood Transfusion In Jehovah's Witness

Jehovah’s Witness see blood transfusion as one of deadly sins in their life. Getting blood transfusion is like having someone else blood running his or her veins. Jehovah witness believes “avoid taking blood not only in obedience to God, but also out of respect for him as the Giver of life.” (Bible & Policy, 2017)

One question need to be ask how long it’s took the hospital know the patient was Jehovah witness and the patient spent 11 day in hospital before the patient die. The hospital had enough time to come with many different alternative treatments to save baby and mother from dying.

I believe nurse, doctor, and other health care people did their best to save the baby and mother’s life. The patient had the right to accept blood transfusion or the c-section in order to save the baby and herself, but patient kept believe in god and did not accept blood transfusion or c-section. The health care provider had no choice, but to accept patient is right to get treatment in this situation. As we are advances in technology, well as medicine, health care provider are finding new ways to help patient in like this scenario “Thousands of doctors worldwide now use blood-conservation techniques to perform complex surgeries without transfusions. Such alternatives to blood transfusions are used even in developing countries and are requested by many patients who are not Jehovah’s Witnesses.” (Bible & Policy, 2017)
Autologous auto transfusion and isovolemic hemodilution can also be used to treat patients who refuse transfusion. Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers may play a future role as intravascular volume expanders in lieu of transfusion of red blood cell concentrates.” (Hughes, Ullery, and Barie,