DEFOREST, Wis.– 38% of Americans are eligible to donate blood. Just 2% actually do.
One donation can help up to three people, according to the American Red Cross, which is why the humanitarian organization is hoping many Wisconsinites will consider giving today.
Blood transfusions allowed McMillin to spend an extra year of life with her family, according to McMillin’s daughter, Jamie.
Betty was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a cancer in which immature blood cells located in the bone marrow fail to mature into healthy blood cells. Betty also developed hemolytic anemia: a blood disorder in which red blood cells are destroyed faster than they can be made.
4/30/2021: 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., New Beginnings Church, 2021 N Western Ave.
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from their press release): With no substitute for blood and no way to manufacture it, volunteer donors are essential for hospital patients in need of transfusions. During National Volunteer Month this April, the American Red Cross is celebrating the blood donors who help fulfill its lifesaving mission and urging healthy individuals to join them in giving. Nearly 2.6 million Red Cross volunteer donors step up every year to ensure blood is on the shelves when patients need it. The generosity of these heroes has been especially impactful over the past year as they helped the Red Cross continue to meet patient needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ When temperatures drop, many regular activities come to a halt, but the American Red Cross needs your help to stop winter weather from giving hospital patients the cold shoulder. Those who are eligible to donate are urged to cozy up to giving blood, platelets or plasma to help hospital patients this February and throughout the pandemic.
As the Red Cross works to provide lifesaving blood products to hospitals for patients every day of the year, weather adds additional complications during this ongoing pandemic. Over the past seven days, blood drives from coast-to-coast have been canceled due to severe winter weather, especially in the Northeast impacting at least 4,600 donations that patients need to help them combat injury and illness, including COVID-19.