KAUKAUNA — Following last week’s winter storm and bitter cold temperatures, the Red Cross has seen hundreds of blood drives canceled across the country, causing more than 6,500 blood and platelet donations to go uncollected.
Unfortunately, this severe winter weather comes at an already challenging time of year to collect blood because many blood donors are away celebrating the end of year holidays, according to the Red Cross.
DONATE BLOOD DEC. 30 IN KAUKAUNA
To help ensure patients continue to have access to lifesaving blood products, the Red Cross urges people in unaffected areas to pitch in and schedule an appointment to give blood to help meet all patient needs across the country.
In our area, the Kaukauna public library will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30, 2022 at the library.
People can also visit RedCrossBlood.org, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, or call 1-800-Red Cross. The most important gift you can give this holiday season is the gift of life through a blood donation.
Every day the Red Cross must collect approximately 12,500 blood and nearly 3,000 platelet donations for patients, who are currently undergoing medical procedures and treatments, who are alone without the bedside support of loved ones, at about 2,500 hospitals and transfusion centers nationwide.
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