Blood

 

Every minute of every day, someone needs blood. That blood can only come from a volunteer donor, a person like you who makes the choice to donate. There is no substitute for your donation.

When you make a blood donation, you join a very select group. Currently only 3 out of every 100 people in America donate blood. Red Cross Blood Services must collect enough blood each and every day to meet the needs of accident victims, cancer patients, surgical candidates, children with blood disorders and others.

The Red Cross is the nation's largest supplier of blood and blood products. Each year, the Red Cross collects about 6.5 million units of blood, from roughly 4 million volunteer blood donors.

From those donations, the Red Cross distributes about 9.5 million blood products each year, including 6 million red blood cells, to about 3,000 hospitals and transfusion centers.

From its beginning, the American Red Cross has formed a community of service, of generous, strong and decent people bound by beliefs beyond themselves. The American Red Cross blood donor embodies this principle. Please join us in our mission to maintain a safe and stable blood supply by making your appointment to donate blood today.

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