AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – With the native blood provide dangerously low, two native blood banks are working laborious to herald donors this week.

The newly opened Blood Connection location in Augusta is internet hosting a blood drive on the web site of its new blood donation heart, 3156 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 201, to handle the present vital want for blood.

A bloodmobile will probably be arrange exterior the middle on Thursday from 2-7 p.m. The blood drive was first deliberate at Docs Hospital, which the blood financial institution serves, however has been moved.

As a thank-you to those that donate blood, all donors will obtain a $20 eGift card. To indicate particular appreciation to first responders, well being care staff and lecturers, these donors will obtain a bonus $20 Amazon present card by displaying their badge or ID.

To make an appointment to donate blood on the drive, click on right here.

In the meantime, Shepeard Neighborhood Blood Middle, which serves different hospitals within the space, is in pressing want of all blood varieties, however particularly of O constructive and O unfavourable.

All summer time, the nonprofit blood financial institution has seen a decline in blood donations, however a trauma case over the weekend raised the urgency.

To donate, you’ll be able to stroll into any heart or name 706-737-4551 for an appointment. To discover a cellular drive or discover donation heart areas, go to shepeardblood.org.

Blood drives by Shepeard this week embody:

• Wednesday: Aiken Regional Medical Middle, midday to eight p.m. contained in the hospital
• Thursday: Columbia County Authorities Advanced close to the library in Evans, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Friday: Hephzibah Excessive College, eight a.m. to 1 p.m. on the bloodmobile

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