The American Red Cross will help with 21 area blood drives in January for National Blood Donor Month. Winter can often be a hard time for blood donations because of cold and flu season, inclement weather and various activities surrounding the holiday season. Organizers are hoping to have several gift certificates for the donors’ raffle. Platelets can be donated every seven days up to 24 times a year. “Being a blood donor is kind of an fantastic thing because to a lot of people it’s something that they do for many reasons – people start donating because it impacted them personally or they may have needed blood at one point or had a family member that needed blood”. “That makes me feel like a hero”.
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OneBloods program called Target Your Type encourages donors to learn about their blood type and the best donation method based upon it. You can find out how your blood type can be targeted toward specific patient needs by going to www.oneblood.org/target-your-type. “It’s an incentive to get you to come”.
Donations will be made at 401 Cedar Rd.in Mullica Hill, NJ, 08062, on Wednesday, January 13 from 4 p.m.to 9 p.m.
Moro: 3 p.m.to 7 p.m. January 28, Meadowbrook Intermediate, 111 West Roosevelt St.
1/7/2016: noon – 6 p.m.
Beechwood Christian, 8535 West Highway 56 French Lick, IN 47432Springs Valley High School, 356 S. Larry Bird Blvd.
One in three of us will need a blood transfusion in our lifetime and one in seven of us will need to receive blood when we become hospital patients.
A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. New donors must be 16 years-old, (with parent’s permission) or 17 years or older, in good health and weigh at least 110 lbs.
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Whole blood donation, the most common type of blood donation, usually takes about an hour, though the actual donation takes about 8-10 minutes during which approximately a pint of “whole blood” is given.
