Canadian Blood Services needs more donors during holidays

Even after an urgent call for donors Dec. 18, Canadian Blood Services still needs to fill 18,000 open appointments — 2,600 in Alberta, 940 in Edmonton — to meet supply standards for the period ending Jan. 6.
“This is typically a bad time for us,” said Deb Steele-Kretschmer, a strategic communications specialist with the organization. “We like to have between five and eight days on supply and right now we have just over three.”
The dip in the national inventory