Red Cross Pangasinan to open Blood Donor’s Month

By Alex Romeo R. Fernandez

Saturday 30th of June 2012

DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan, June 30 (PIA) -- The Red Cross-Pangasinan Chapter will formally open the National Blood Donors Month today.

National Chairman Richard J. Gordon will lead the press conference at 10 a.m. in Barangay Herrero-Perez here, where a ground breaking ceremony for the Red Cross Pangasinan Chapter Warehouse will immediately follow.

The chapter will later engage several stakeholders from the academe and the medical profession in the signing of memoranda of agreement for the establishment of Red Cross Youth Council in the schools and improvement of blood donation services, respectively.

Making up the stakeholders are the University of Luzon, Urdaneta City University, Red Cross Youth-San Carlos City Division, Dagupan Doctors Villaflor Hospital, Nazareth General Hospital, Luzon Medical Center, Specialist Group and Trauma Hospital, the Pangasinan Medical Society and the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital.

At 1 p.m., the CSI City Mall Atrium in Barangay Lucao, this city, will host the chapter’s launch of the 2012 Million Volunteer Run, a blood donation awareness campaign and fund raising activity.

This will be followed by an oath taking ceremony for Red Cross volunteers from this city and the towns of Umingan, Bugallon, Rosales, Bayambang and San Manuel. (JCR/ARRF-PIA1 Pangasinan)