Red Cross to hold annual Battle of the Badges Blood Drive

15-20 percent of donorship dwindles in the summer and winter when the most blood is needed and few donors are available. “Our regular donors are vacationing, many of them, and we feel that coupled in with the high school and college students can impact donations”. The more specific Types B negative and A negative can be transfused to Rh positive or negative patients. It supplies approximately 75,000 red cell, 13,000 platelet, and 21,000 plasma units per year.

“We also have an urgent need at the following time for platelets and Type AB blood donors”, Noble added. Platelets – a key clotting component of blood often needed by cancer patients, surgical patients and bone narrow recipients – must be transfused within five days of donation, so donations are constantly needed.

“Those blood types are O negative, B negative and A negative”, Noble said. That’s why The American Red Cross is teaming up with Virginia Tech to hold its annual blood drive.

202), Suite 2300. Hours are Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 7 a.m.to 1:30p.m., and Wednesday and Thursday, 11:30 a.m.to 6 p.m.

♦ August 9 from 7 a.m.to 1:45 p.m.at the Cobb Blood Donation Center; and 9 a.m.to 2 p.m.at Word of Faith Family Worship Cathedral, 212 Riverside Parkway in Austell.

8/15/2015: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Indiana National Guard, 1220 W Madison St.in Plymouth.

8/25/2015: 12:30 p.m. – 5 p.m., Galveston United Methodist Church, 515 S Maple in Galveston.

8/20/2015: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Logansport Mall, 3900 E. Market St.in Logansport.

8/5/2015: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., NHC Place at Cool Springs, 211 Cool Springs Blvd.

8/20/2015: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Manchester Church of the Brethren, 1306 Beckley St.in North Manchester.

8/10/2015: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Wilson County Sheriff’s Department, 105 East High St.