Molloy College Blood Drive

February 13, 2013

Blood Drive at 9:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. in the Public Square Multipurpose Room. You can make a difference.

*Donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh 110 pounds, and be in good health.

Blood Statistics

*Usage:

4.5 million Americans benefit from life-saving blood transfusions each year
40,000 pints are transfused each day in the United States
New York Blood Center alone requires over 2,000 volunteer blood donations each day to meet the transfusion needs of patients in close to 200 New York and New Jersey hospitals
1 out of every 3 people will require a life-saving transfusion sometime during their lifetime
Someone in this country needs a life-saving transfusion every 3 second
Transfusion recipients include cancer patients, accident, burn and trauma victims, newborn babies, transplant patients, mothers delivering babies, surgery patients, chronically transfused patients suffering from sickle cell disease or thalassemia, etc.
Each donation of blood can help save 3 lives following component (red cell, platelet, plasma) separation
Much of today's sophisticated medical care ( transplants, heart surgeries, etc.) rely on blood transfusions
Car accident and trauma victims may need as many as 50 or more red cell transfusions
Severe burn victims may need as many as 20 platelet transfusions
Bone marrow transplants may require platelets from over 100 donors and red cells from over 20 people
Blood products are perishable. Donated red cells last only 42 days, platelets only 5 days, and plasma can be frozen for a year