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Summer Blood Drive
June 23, 2008 |
From parrots to hula girls a recent beach party was well underway at Lee
Memorial Hospital. But the summer festivities were focused on much more than
having a good time. The party was part of an effort to drum up support from
local blood donors.
Nancy Hendrick is the Community Relations Coordinator for Lee Memorial Health
System. She says, “We’re here at Lee Memorial Auditorium and we try to do a very
festive blood drive it’s called the Second Annual Fun in the Sun Blood Drive. We
try to get a beach theme, kind of a fun theme to try to encourage people because
the more fun you have with it the more people come out.”
There are two big reasons why donated blood is scarcer during the summer months.
Nancy says, “During the summer months it’s because we lose the high schools that
we go the high schools are a great draws for us. We also lose the senior
population that’s here in the RV parks.” So with the thousands of high school
students and snowbirds missing from the blood donor pool, blood center workers
are looking to you for help.
“Since Lee Memorial has the Trauma Center here at Lee and we service from
Charlotte County all the way to Collier County so we are busy no matter what
because accidents don’t stop happening, terrible things happen gunshots,
stabbings, things like that and people are always needing blood,” says Nancy.
To find out when the Fun in the Sun Blood Drive is coming to your neighborhood
or nearest blood center you can call 239-334-5333. Donating one pint of blood
can help save at least three people’s lives. |
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