Blood shortage prompts widespread call for donations
This April 4, 2019, file photo shows Laura Milam having her blood drawn by Travis Swiontek at the Vitalant blood donation center in Kalispell. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Facing a critical blood shortage, the nonprofit transfusion medicine organization that supplies dozens of hospitals and clinics throughout Montana, Idaho and Washington with blood products recently urged individuals to donate blood as soon as possible to their local clinic.
The organization, Vitalant, has approximately 120 donation centers across the nation — including three in Montana — that supply more than 900 hospitals and clinics with blood products...
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