LifeShare ready to assist if future blood donations needed for shooting victims

LifeShare Blood Centers says the blood needs of Ft. Hood shooting victims have been met but the organization stands ready to assist in the future. 

LifeShare Blood Centers is a member of an organization of community blood centers that shares blood resources in time of need. 

Earlier Friday, LifeShare requested that people with O negative blood consider donating. O negative universal donors and their blood is most often used during traumas.  Therefore, it is often in short supply.  Type O donors make up about 45% of the population. O negative donors make up about 7% of the population.

If you are blood type O negative, you are a universal donor.   

Please contact your local LifeShare Blood Centers at (409) 838-5289 or visit http://www.lifeshare.org/ and schedule your blood donation request online. 

Potential donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, feel well and healthy at the time of donation, and eat a well-balanced meal with increased fluid intake prior to donation,  know the names and doses of any medications taken, and the reasons for taking the medications. Identification must be presented at the time of donation.

You can donate Monday-Friday at LifeShare, 4305 Laurel in Beaumont, from 8-5:30. 

LifeShare is hosting community blood drives this weekend:

Saturday, November 7

Wal-Mart Orange

10am-3pm

Saturday, November 7

Wal-Mart Woodville

11am-3pm

Sunday, November 8

Wal-Mart Silsbee

1-6pm