WKRBC Holding BBQ Chicken Day for Blood Donors

Do you regularly donate blood? I donated just a couple of weeks ago with the Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center and they need your help and donations this Wednesday.

Summer is a time when regular donors may forget about it. We get distracted by countless activities and vacations. Thus, WKRBC is running dangerously low on some blood types. You can help and there's some food involved.

Wednesday morning, a team of volunteers will light the pit, which the Masonville Fire Department has provided and they will cook nearly 100 whole barbeque chickens. Each donor will get an entire pit BBQ chicken and a T-shirt. The chickens will come off the pits about 10:30-10:45 a.m. and be ready to take them at 11:00 a.m.

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BBQ Chicken Day will be held at the Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center. 

WKRBC is the sole supplier of blood and blood products used at six Western Kentucky Hospitals including Owensboro Health Regional Hospital, Owensboro Health Twin Lakes, Ohio County Hospital, Crittenden Health System, Caldwell County Hospital, Jennie Stuart Medical Center, and Breckinridge Memorial. They also serve Air Ambulances--Air Evac 92--Breckinridge County, Air Evac 120--Crittenden County, and Air Evac 10--Christian County.

Requirements for donating blood:

Criteria for donation by person sixteen years of age. (1) Any person seventeen (17) years of age or older may donate blood in a voluntary blood program, which is a 501c3 nonprofit, without consent of the person's parent or legally authorized representative. (2) A person sixteen (16) years of age and weighing at least one hundred ten (110) pounds may donate blood in a voluntary blood program, which is not operated for profit, with the written consent of the person's parent or legally authorized representative. (3) The parent or legally authorized representative of a person who donates blood pursuant to subsection (1) or (2) of this section shall not be held financially responsible for any medical complications arising from the blood donation. (4) Before soliciting blood donations from students in high schools, joint vocational schools, or technical schools, a blood program, in cooperation with school authorities, shall make reasonable efforts to notify the parents or legally authorized representatives of the students that the students will be requested to donate blood.

Also, if your iron count (hemo crit) is low, you may be deferred from donating. A deferral does not mean the donor is anemic, iron levels can fluctuate. Be sure you eat iron-rich foods such as leafy greens, red meat, nuts and seeds, legumes, tuna, eggs, or yes, chicken.