10 Reasons to Donate Blood on March 13th
March 6, 2017
- Save three lives
- More than 38,000 blood donations are needed per day
- There are four different transfusable products from whole blood (red cells, platelets, plasma, cryoprecipitate)
- Cancer patients need blood transfusions
- Improves blood flow
- Balances iron levels
- Blood can not be manufactured
- 37% of people are eligible to give blood, but only 10% actually donate
- Premature babies need blood to survive
- “Blood donations to the American Red Cross have slumped recently, so donors are desperately needed, the organization says.”
