Source: VA Blood Services / VA Blood Services
Let’s celebrate life and lessen the pain for our brothers, sisters and community living with the dreaded Sickle Cell Disease. This is Black History Month so let’s help keep our communities well. Please support the 2nd Annual Give Back to Black Blood Drive on Monday, February 29, 2016, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. at White Oak Village (next to DTLR) on Laburnum Avenue.
Miss Community Clooovia and personalities from iPower 92.1/104.1 Fm, Praise 104.7 Fm, 99.3/105.7 Kiss Fm and WTPS-AM want to collect over 300 pints of blood for sickle-cell patients through the Virginia Blood Services.
Listen to my interview with a doctor and professor of Sickle Cell Disease at VCU, Dr. Wally Smith. Let’s replenish the blood after crisis for sickle-cell infants, youth and adult patients.
What is Sickle Cell Disease? Dr. Wally Smith explains in layman terms for us here…
