PHOTOS — Giving life by giving blood at PNG
Published 12:20 am Wednesday, January 22, 2020
- Mary Thome makes a donation in January with help from Denise Broussard. (Brad Robichaux/The News)
PORT NECHES — The Life Share Blood Center conducted a blood drive hosted by the Port Neches-Groves High School National Honor Society on Tuesday.
The goal for this year’s drive was to donate 150 units of blood, though NHS sponsors Jennifer Reynolds and Jessica Pardue said PNG exceeded goals in many of the more than 20 years the organization has been hosting the drive.
Each student member of theHonor Society was required to bring two donors to the event. The drive began at 2 p.m. and lasted until 7 p.m. in the girls’ gymnasium. By 3 p.m. the drive had already taken donations from approximately 30 people. The blood will be used by local hospitals.
The blood drive is an annual service project for January. In February the NHS’s project will be donations to the Humane Society. In April the club will make donations to the Hope Women’s Resource Clinic.
Lori Reyes draws some of Ray Jones’ blood for donation.
Shenelle Harris, back left, and Autumn Jefferson, front left, take vital signs like blood pressure for prospective donors like Jerry Latiolais.
Audrey Mitchell gets ready to donate.
Charlotte Mitchell uses a portable apheresis machine to separate donations into plasma and red blood cells, depending on the blood type of the donor. Mitchell says the area is in critical need of blood.
