The Blood Connection Offering Bigger Bonus For Donating This Week

Due to the need for Blood Products in our community, the Blood Connection has extended its bonus points.

Blood donors will receive a bonus $40 eGift card and a Luck O’ the Donor scratch-off ticket when you donate blood with The Blood Connection through Thursday.

The bloodmobile will be at the Lavonia Police Department today from 1p to 6p and on Wednesday at Tri-State Distributors in Roysto from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm.

Then on Saturday, the bloodmobile will be at the Toccoa Walmart from noon to 5p and this Sunday, you can donate blood at the Hartwell Walmart when the bloodmobile is there from 10a to 2p.

Delisa English, TBC President, and CEO tells WLHR News that giving blood gives local hospital patients hope for successful treatments and more time with their families.

Blood products are used every minute for a wide range of treatments.

Cancer patients use 25 percent of all blood donations.

Blood transfusions are needed in one out of every 83 newborn deliveries in America today, a rate that has increased by more than 50 percent between 2006 and 2015.

Everyone likely knows someone who has needed or will need blood, but despite that, most of the U.S. population does not donate blood.

While 60% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, only 3% or roughly 7 million people, are holding up the nation’s blood supply, as reports of blood shortages become more and more frequent.

Blood donors must be healthy, weigh at least 110 pounds, and be at least 17 years old or 16 with written parental consent. Donors must also bring a valid photo ID.

All blood types are needed but especially type O Negative, which is the universal blood type that can be given to anyone regardless of their blood type.

If you would like to donate blood, you can find a list of locations in our area to donate by going to the Blood Connection website at https://donate.thebloodconnection.org/donor, then click on ZIP code search.