{"id":7564,"date":"2006-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2006\/12\/08\/york-donors-rolled-up-their-sleeves\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:02:24","slug":"york-donors-rolled-up-their-sleeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2006\/12\/08\/york-donors-rolled-up-their-sleeves\/","title":{"rendered":"York donors rolled up their sleeves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Students, staff and faculty rolled up their sleeves and gave 382 units of blood during the November Canadian Blood Services drive on campus.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>On average, one unit of blood helps three people, so&nbsp;donations from the York community&nbsp;will help an estimated 1,146 people in the Greater Toronto Area. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Hosted by York\u2019s Health Education &amp; Promotion, the four-day November blood drive on campus was one of the most successful at York in 20 years. A representative from the Canadian Blood Services said the inaugural blood challenge between Schulich School of Business and Osgoode Hall Law School played a significant role in this success and hopes the challenge involves even more faculties in years to come.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The next blood donor clinic on campus takes place Jan.15-19.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Did you know: <\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>giving blood can save a life;<br \/>\n<LI>only 3.5 per cent of eligible Canadians give blood;<br \/>\n<LI>patients in area hospitals use at least 650-700 units of blood each day;<br \/>\n<LI>cancer patients use an average of eight units of blood products each week during their treatment? <\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>For more information on giving blood, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodservices.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><FONT color=\"#3333ff\">Canadian Blood Services<\/FONT><\/A> Web site&nbsp; or call 1-888-2-DONATE.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Health Education &amp; Promotion is located in the Centre for Student Community &amp; Leadership Development. For more information about health-related events taking place on campus, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/healthed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><FONT color=\"#3333ff\">here<\/FONT><\/A>.&nbsp; <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University community gave enough blood to help more than 1,100 people in the GTA...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-7564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - 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