An end-of-October campus blood drive tradition will continue Oct. 30, 31 and Nov. 1 in University Center 116.
From 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Bonfils Blood Center will collect blood and register faculty, staff and students as bone marrow donors. This is the second year that Bonfils has worked with UCCS. Previously, blood collection services were handled by Memorial Hospital.
For more information about blood donation requirements or to set an appointment, call (800) 365-0006 or visit www.bonfils.org and use site code A390. Walk-in donations will be accepted. Donors are encouraged to be well-hydrated and to have recently eaten.
Ida Dilwood, director, Office of Disability Services, is co-chairing this year’s blood drive with Mathew Roesemann, budget analyst, Resource Management Division. They are continuing a UCCS tradition that dates to the 1980s.
Dilwood and Roesemann hope to surpass last year’s donation total of 187 pints. They are counting on regular donors such as Gayanne Scott, executive director, Resource Management Division, as well as first-time donors. Scott has donated more than six gallons of blood during campus blood drives that began in the late 1980s when former accounting supervisor Juan Garcia dressed as Count Dracula and visited offices to encourage donations. Dilwood plans to be a repeat donor this year and credits her son’s transfusion during heart surgery for raising her awareness of the importance of blood donation.
Bonfils workers won’t don costumes as a way of encouraging donations. Instead, they emphasize the effect of a blood donation. A single donation can help three people recover from injury, surgery, or in the fight against a life threatening illness.
Questions? Contact Dilwood, 255-3653, or Roesemann, 255-3389.
It’s good to know that in the other part of the world also have this blood drive. There are more and more people that needs blood and it is important that people are aware of saving lives by giving blood. Few days ago, we have bloodletting in our office with the assistance of the Philippine Red Cross team and it is very successful knowing that more lives will be saved by every bag we donated. Read more here http://thestoryofawanderer.blogspot.com/2013/10/be-hero-give-blood-and-hope-to-our.html