The Red Cross has issued its first-ever national blood crisis amid the omicron surge. The Red Cross says it could affect patients in hospitals who desperately need blood, platelets or plasma. Asheville police Capt. Joseph Silberman works in the criminal investigations department. He spends hours trying to puzzle together cases.
The supply of blood in Illinois is critically low right now. It’s so low, that the Red Cross said hospitals have been forced to cancel surgeries. But donors can help multiple patients, even the smallest Chicagoans, by rolling up their sleeves. Sometimes the tiniest patients need the biggest forms of
KCRA 3 is teaming up with Vitalant for the annual Blood Drive for Life, which this year is taking place on Jan. 5-8 across two locations in Rocklin and Sacramento. The COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting donations. Vitalant has seen 92,000 fewer donors in recent years, compared to pre-pandemic periods.
To increase awareness on blood donation, 24-year-old Gandu Siva from Guntur undertook a 7,000-km walkathon across the country. He started the walkathon from Kanyakumari on April 1 and completed it in Delhi last week. He interacted with people and educated them in 22 states including Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra
A group of women from the Abu Dhabi-based Indian association have donated rare blood types to support the local health authorities’ efforts to save lives of patients and manage blood transfusion requirements during the pandemic. With the pandemic crisis intensifying, members of the Indian Ladies Association (ILA) in collaboration with
MEMBERS of the youth wing of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria (AMJN), Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Nigeria, Oyo State chapter, have completed the donation of 511 pints of blood to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan and the South West zonal office of the National Blood Service Commission (NBSC) for the
