Donate Blood, Save a Life

The American Red Cross urges eligible donors to give blood in August and help meet the constant need for blood products by patients.

Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood.

Summer is an especially difficult time to collect enough blood to meet the needs of hospital patients. Despite travel and other activities that may cause some donors to be less available to give, the Red Cross must collect 15,000 blood donations every day to meet the needs of patients at approximately 2,600 hospitals and transfusion centers across the country.

With more summer days ahead, every blood donation is important in helping ensure blood is available for patients in need, according to the Red Cross, and volunteer donors are the only source of blood for those who need it.

Donors of all blood types – especially those with types AB, O negative, A negative and B negative – are needed to help ensure blood products are available to hospital patients this summer.

To make an appointment to give blood, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visitredcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

Upcoming blood donation opportunities in Middlesex County:

Andover

8/3/2015: 1:30 p.m. - 7 p.m., Temple Emanuel, 7 Haggetts Pond Road

Beverly

8/1/2015: 8 a.m. - 1 p.m., Elks Hall/Beverly, 39 Bow St.

Byfield

8/4/2015: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Freedom Fertility, 12 Kent Way

Georgetown

8/10/2015: 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., Georgetown VFW, 435 Andover St.

Gloucester

8/8/2015: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Uechi Karate Academy, 2A Pond Road

8/8/2015: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Addison Gilbert Hospital, 298 Washington Street

Haverhill

8/13/2015: 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., All Saints Parish, 120 Bellevue Avenue, Rt. 97

8/15/2015: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Rite - Aid - Bradford, 68 South Main St.

Ipswich

8/7/2015: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., EBSCO Publishing, 10 Estes St.

8/13/2015: 1 p.m. - 6 p.m., John T Heard Masonic Lodge, 70 Topsfield Road

Lawrence

8/7/2015: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m., Home Health Foundation, 360 Merrimack St., Building #9 Entrance I

Marblehead

8/6/2015: 1:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., VFW Post 2005, 321 West Shore Drive

8/13/2015: 1 p.m. - 7 p.m., Temple Emanu-El, 393 Atlantic Ave.

Methuen

8/3/2015: 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., Knights of Columbus, 462 Broadway

8/8/2015: 8 a.m. - 1 p.m., Holy Family Hospital, 70 East St.

8/12/2015: 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., Knights of Columbus, 462 Broadway

Newburyport

8/10/2015: 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., Elks Lodge, 25 Low St.

8/14/2015: 1 p.m. - 6 p.m., Atria Merrimack Place, 85 Storey Ave.

North Andover

8/3/2015: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Osgood Landing & Ozzy Properties, Osgood Landing - 1600 Osgood St.

Peabody

8/11/2015: 1 p.m. - 6 p.m., Peabody Town Hall, 24 Lowell St.

Salem

8/5/2015: 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., Salem Masonic Temple, 70 Washington St.