Henry and his family hold a blood drive party because donated blood helped save their son’s life. Read Full Article
For Brittany Heckenberg, service is in her blood, quite literally. Heckenberg started donating to Vitalant’s blood banks after her family’s need for blood was urgent a little over a year ago. Her 3-year-old son, who fondly goes by “Superman Henry,” suddenly became ill back in 2017 with a rare blood
Seven-year-old Cameron Bulger was just like any young boy his age — cheerful and filled with laughter. However, after suffering from silent seizures in his first grade class early in 2018, Cameron was diagnosed with a Grade 4 CNS Embryonal Tumour in his brain, requiring an intense treatment protocol including
As a nursing school student in Cameroon, Melissa Bime remembers watching helplessly as a mother struggled to find a blood match for her 5-year-old daughter, Rita. After three days of fruitless searching, Rita died. A week later, Bime discovered that a hospital 20 minutes away had had the right blood
Danielle Furrell has always donated blood. It was second nature to do something so easy that could potentially help others, but she never anticipated that one day, blood transfusions would save her own life. “I’ve always donated before, I always knew it was important,” Furrell said. “Until it happened to
There’s definitely nothing negative about this group of northern refugees. Except maybe their blood group. On Australia Day a group of 26 refugees will donate blood to say “thank you” to their local community. Volunteers from the Punya Foundation, based in Salisbury North, will converge on the Red Cross Modbury