My City January 2023

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Donate Blood to Save Lives

BY PETER HINTERMAN

IT’S A NEWYEAR – AND IT CAN BE A NEW YOU AS IT IS THE PERFECT TIME TO STEP OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE AND DO SOME THING THATWILL SAVE LIVES: GIVE BLOOD. IS THERE A BETTER WAY TO START 2023 THAN BY BEING A HERO?

E very two seconds, someone in the United States is in dire need of blood or platelets and one donation can save up to three lives.That’s three lives saved for just over an hour of your time. Seems worth it, right? Donated blood benefits so much more than accident victims or victims of violent trauma. Your unit of blood can help cancer patients, burn victims, SICKLE CELL sufferers and those with other chronic diseases. Currently, there is a shortage of blood and every unit counts (accident victims alone can use up

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