He recently reached his 150th pint, at age 59.
He has found the hour it takes to donate his blood about four times a year for the past 42 years.
“There is still a need. We still don’t have synthetic blood, like someone can’t go to a lab and make it,” he said in an interview.
Dors, an Owen Sound eye doctor, has a less common blood type, O-negative. It’s particularly valuable because people of all blood types can receive O-negative blood. If he needs blood though, he can only receive O-negative.
He recalls being asked for a blood donation ahead of a surgery at Sick Kids hospital involving another O-negative person, which illustrates how important and in short supply that type of blood can be. The Canada Blood Services website says currently there’s a five-day supply of O-negative. Anything below eight is considered “especially needed.”
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