Students At Morgan State University Partner With The American Red Cross For Blood Drive

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Students connected the field of Morgan State University are moving with the American Red Cross to rise consciousness for humor donations needed for radical who endure from Sickle Cell Anemia.

WJZ has besides partnered with the Red Cross to shed airy connected the captious request for humor donors successful the African American community.

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Fifty first-time humor donors donated connected the field of Morgan State University connected Wednesday.

“I cognize determination is simply a shortage of humor donations, and, so, I thought that if I was eligible, past I should participate,” Morgan State University pupil Audrey Tchoufi said.

The drive, enactment connected by the American Red Cross, was a portion of the organization’s combat to get much African Americans to donate humor that could beryllium adjuvant for radical with sickle compartment disease.

Sickle compartment is an inherited humor upset that chiefly impacts African Americans. Those with sickle compartment could request galore humor transfusions passim their lives to dainty their disease.

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“You ne'er cognize what interaction you tin person connected different people’s lives and worldly similar that, truthful it’s ever bully to effort and bash the close happening for different people,” Morgan State University pupil Kory Hayes said.

During the humor drive, the American Red Cross besides recognized Morgan State University for winning the organization’s HBCU 16 Day Challenge. Students astatine colleges crossed the state were asked to dispersed the connection astir the request for sickle compartment humor donors implicit the summer. Morgan State came successful archetypal place.

“One successful 13 achromatic and African Americans transportation the sickle compartment trait, and galore are unaware,” American Red Cross Regional Diversity Account Manager Meosha Hudson said. “So, the situation was an accidental to shed airy connected that disparity, to shed airy connected the request to bash thing astir it and to activate the HBCU assemblage to truly pb the state connected making definite those patients are not forgotten.”

Homeopathic therapies similar massage and aromatherapy tin comfortableness patients, but determination is nary cure for sickle cell.

Back successful July, WJZ archetypal told you astir The Bobbi Engram Foundation who has besides partnered with the Red Cross to rise consciousness astir the disease.

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Jessica Albert