Urgent need for blood donations post holiday season in the Valley

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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Every 2 seconds, idiosyncratic successful the United States is successful request of humor donations oregon humor platelets.

That request is besides present successful the Central Valley.

"We're not alone. The full federation has experienced a humor shortage implicit the past respective years, coming retired of COVID," said Christopher Staub with the Central California Blood Center.

President and CEO astatine the Central California Blood Center, Christopher Staub, says donations are needed each twelvemonth round, but peculiarly now.

"Right now, unfortunately, we person much snowflake decorations connected the doorway than we person humor successful the refrigerators," said Staub.

Bare shelves amusement that dire need. While you tin spot the humor proviso is debased crossed each types, 1 of those bare shelves is for O-positive.

"If it's benignant O, it volition alert disconnected the aforesaid arsenic soon arsenic it's tested and labeled; it volition beryllium going to a hospital. That's due to the fact that the request for benignant O humor is truthful overmuch higher than thing other due to the fact that it is the cosmopolitan donor," said Staub.

He says they request 5,000 donations a period conscionable to conscionable the needs of the patients successful the area.

While hospitals are restocked with the humor they request close now, they request radical to donate this week oregon adjacent to proceed replenishing rows astatine their facility.

"We've besides seen a large summation successful patients who request humor successful our hospitals, and that's due to the fact that aft the holidays, a batch of radical person elective surgeries that they person to determination up with, truthful close now, the request for humor is adjacent higher than what we've been collecting," said Staub.

Officials astatine Valley Children's Hospital archer Action News portion they are capable to get patients the humor they need, they are presently experiencing a dip successful their humor supply.

Making the urgent telephone for humor adjacent greater.

"One humor donation tin prevention up to 3 lives," said Staub.

Throughout the month, random donors volition besides beryllium selected to triumph a brace of tickets to a Save Mart Center performance coming to Fresno this year.

If you would similar to donate, you tin find a database of locations crossed the Central Valley below:

Central California Blood Center Locations:

Jenny Eller Donor Center

4343 West Herndon Ave, Fresno

OPEN: Friday 9 am-6 pm, Saturday 7 am-4 pm

Fresno Donor Center

1196 East Shaw Ave #102, Fresno

OPEN: Friday 9 am-6 pm, Saturday 8 am-5 pm

North Fresno Donor Center

1010 East Perrin Ave, Fresno

OPEN: Friday 9 am-6 pm, Saturday 8 am-5 pm

Clovis Donor Center