Children and teachers from St Ursula’s School each waited their turn to donate blood to the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) recently. According to Belinda Espag from the school, they chose to host this blood drive because blood is something you can donate immediately, it costs you nothing to
The Blood Center is holding a blood drive for a Walker baby born with a severe congenital heart disease. At just 5-months-old, Nathaniel Sparks has already had his first cardiac surgery and is expected to have another one where he’s being treated at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans. Baby Nathaniel
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