Volunteer spotlight: Give the gift of life this holiday with blood donation
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Modified: 12/12/2020 10:43:42 PM
Winter is typically a slower time of year for blood donations. People go away for the holidays or don’t want to go out in the poor weather.
“December just tends to be a month that gets neglected,” said Denee MacKenzie, blood donor relations specialist at DHMC.
Most of the time, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s Blood Donor Program can manage by relying on supplies from other sources, but the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the flow of donations, making the outlook for this winter worse than in past years.