Blood Donations Mean Even More to Donors After Vegas Tragedy

 While Lisa Sacks gives blood about every three months, it’s her most recent donation she knows could go to help those in need of blood in Las Vegas.

“I was actually looking into going to that festival so that really hit home,” Lisa Sacks said.

Alberto Encinas said he always gives blood at Wesleyan University’s annual drive but personally knowing some of the concert-goers who were at the mass shooting makes this donation even more meaningful

“Actually had a couple of friends and family members that had went to the concert and were there during the shooting,” Encinas said.

The Red Cross said it has an adequate blood supply to respond to the Las Vegas tragedy and says the donations will go toward the national blood inventory. A supply donors like Encinas are happy to help sustain.

“There are many individuals that just happened to get hit ricocheting bullets and stuff like that so definitely donating blood and helping those individuals out really means a lot,” Encinas said.

The Red Cross said it has provided more than 450 blood products to local Las Vegas hospitals, it says that some of the blood collected in Middletown. could actually go out that way to help replenish the supply there.

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