This just in, according to Dane Usry, District Manager for American Red Cross Blood Services for Alabama, this is the current update on blood supplies for our region, INCLUDING Tuscaloosa and West Alabama. The American Red Cross is experiencing the most severe blood shortage in the past decade. The number of trauma cases, organ transplants and elective surgeries is constantly rising – and depleting the nation’s blood inventory.
The American Red Cross is facing a looming shortage of the blood types most needed by patients and is calling on eligible donors with O negative, B negative and A negative blood to give now to prevent an emergency situation.
It's an end of summer blood drive for the American Red Cross, with various donation events lined up through August. It's an effort to prevent a shortage.
Your chance to be a hero is on the horizon! The American Red Cross is hosting a community blood drive at University Mall in Tuscaloosa from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, June 5, 2015.
Disasters can strike at any time, and the American Red Cross encourages eligible donors to help their communities prepare for emergencies by giving blood during National Preparedness Month.