MID-HUDSON – Blood drives scheduled
for and by New York Blood Center were cancelled with the threat of a blizzard
earlier this week and that has resulted in a shortage of the blood supply
by the New York Blood Center.
Executive Director Andrea Cefarelli said blood drives are just resuming.
“We lost 3,000 blood donations through numerous blood drives through
Thursday, so that caused a pretty severe blood shortage,” she said.
In the Hudson Valley, New York Blood Centre provides blood to Westchester
Medical Center in Valhalla, MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester
Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, Keller Army Hospital at West Point, St.
Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, Northern Westchester Hospital Center and
Nyack Hospital.
