Are You Eligible To Donate Blood?
Blood donation helps save lives every day, and January is National Blood Donor Month. Even though an estimated 38 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood at any given time, less than 10 percent do so annually.
Every day in the U.S., approximately 44,000 units of blood are required in hospitals and emergency treatment facilities for patients with cancer and other diseases, for organ transplant recipients, and to help save the lives of accident/trauma victims.
Donating blood is an easy and simple process, and while not everyone is qualified to donate, it is easy to find out whether or not you can. There are blood donation centers across the United States, and many schools, offices and other organizations hold blood drives to help drive blood donations.
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