Your blood donation can save up to three lives because they'll often take the blood and divide it into three aspects: the platelets, the plasma, and the actual blood cells.
Human blood is required to save the lives of people suffering from accidents and disease millions of times each year in the United States. There is no way to manufacture human blood outside the body.
The Community Blood Center is hosting two blood drives next week, and there's an added bonus for anybody that's a Kansas City Royals fan... or even somebody who knows a Royals fan.
People who have been in car accidents might need a huge transfusion of red blood cells. But platelets are used too, for cancer patients, trauma and open heart surgeries.
Every four minutes someone in the area needs a blood transfusion. That's why you should consider donating blood to Community Blood Center on Tuesday June 9.