NORTH ALABAMA (WHNT) – There’s an pressing want for blood donations because the nationwide blood provide has dropped to dangerously low ranges. 

Amid this important blood scarcity, LifeSouth is asking on North Alabama residents to donate blood at their “Vacation spot: Donation Blood Drive” on Saturday, July 16.

LifeSouth says they sometimes see a dip in donations in the summertime and that’s as a result of throughout this time of 12 months, colleges are closed and lots of of their common donors are touring.

At present, the blood financial institution wants all blood varieties to donate. 250 blood donors are wanted daily to maintain native hospitals provided with blood.

O unfavourable donors are wanted on a regular basis as a result of it’s the common blood kind and can be utilized in emergency conditions however solely 7% of the inhabitants is O unfavourable.

Officers stated blood utilization will increase throughout the summer season months, inflicting our group’s blood provide to drop when it’s wanted most. If the blood provide is just not stabilized quickly, lifesaving blood is probably not out there for some when it’s wanted.

Becky Cecil, LifeSouth District Group Growth Coordinator, says “It’s simply one thing that each one of us, as people, have in widespread. We’d like blood to outlive and if we don’t have that, we will’t survive. We’d like the hospitals. If somebody have been to get into an accident, have a trauma or want some blood for some purpose…we wish that blood to be out there to them, particularly in the summertime the place we see that squeeze.”

On Saturday the blood drive will run from 9 a.m. four p.m. Donors will obtain a $20 e-gift card and will likely be entered right into a drawing for a wide range of native prizes, together with restaurant reward playing cards, lodge stays, museum memberships and attraction tickets.

Blood Drive Areas:

• Athens Donor Middle – 22051 US Freeway 72 E, Unit A, Athens, AL 35613
• Albertville Donor Middle – 8626 Freeway 431, Albertville, AL 35950
• Attalla Donor Middle – 962 Gilbert Ferry Rd, Attalla, AL 35954
• Decatur Donor Middle – 2349 Danville Rd. SW, Suite 120, Decatur, AL 35603
• Madison Donor Middle – 8190 Madison Blvd., Madison, AL 35758
• Shoals Donor Middle – 307 Veterans Drive, Florence, AL 35630

All blood drives and donation facilities might be discovered on the LifeSouth web site.