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IN ext Wednesday, the Rappahannock Lions Club will once again sponsor a Red Cross bloodmobile. It will be at the Baptist Church in Washington from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Ed Suslovic, Field Consultant for the Red Cross, stopped by the Rappahannock News a few weeks ago to give us some information on the need and use of blood collected locally.
Suslovic told us that, in Europe, many more people come out to give blood than in this country. He speculates that Europeans have seen more closely the ravishes and suffering of war and therefore are more aware of the great need for donated blood.
It’s true that since the use of blood transfusions in hospital care we’ve been spared the presence of war in our country. But the need for blood exists all around us.
Any operation for cancer, for instance, uses between three and four units of whole blood or red cells. A newborn baby with an Rh factor will use a unit or more. A person with hemophilia will use blood throughout his lifetime to sustain life. A child with leukemia will stay alive through the gifts of strangers.
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