In 1,620 transfusions observed at the 46th Army Surgical Hospital (8209th MASH), there were only four urticarial reactions and no reactions due to incompatibility.

Staff at Uige's large provincial hospital also need training and equipment to reduce the risk that routine surgical and laboratory procedures might endanger staff and other patients.

They found that hospital admissions and surgical operations are only accepted in very critical cases, once approved by a technical medical committee and the local strike committee.