Belleville Community Blood Drive to be Held
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Every day, blood donors help patients of all ages: accident and burn victims, heart surgery and organ transplant patients, and those battling cancer. In fact, every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood.
Who can you help by donating blood? Cancer patients, trauma patients, Sickle Cell patients, burn patients, patients with chronic diseases, and more.
The Red Cross provides about 40% of our nation’s blood and blood components, all from generous volunteer donors like you. But supply can’t always meet demand because only about 3% of age-eligible people donate blood yearly. Each new donor helps us meet patient needs.
The Belleville Community Blood Drive will be held on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, from 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., at St. Mary of Lourdes, 221 Frederick Street, and is sponsored by the Econo-mizers and the Kiwanis Club.
An appointment is strongly recommended. To do so, please download the American Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit http://www.redcrossblood.org and use Sponsor Code BellevilleWI, or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767). Completion of a RapidPass online health history questionnaire found at http://www.redcrossblood.org/rapidpass is encouraged to help speed up the donation process. A blood donor card or driver’s license, or two other forms of identification, are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age in most states (16 with parental consent where allowed by state law), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.
