From left, Katie Drinks and Yolanda Roberts with the Camden Clark Ambulance Service were screened and joined the Be the Match registry. They person some donated 350 cardinal humor stem cells each to 2 patients. WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center volition clasp Be the Match stem compartment screening opportunities for employees and residents from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday astatine the Grand Central Mall by Boot Barn and Books-A-Million. (Photo Provided)
PARKERSBURG — WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center volition clasp Be the Match stem compartment screening opportunities for employees and residents from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, astatine the Grand Central Mall by Boot Barn and Books-A-Million.
In summation to the assemblage screening event, Camden Clark volition big an interior Be the Match screening accidental for employees arsenic portion of its Thanks for Giving worker appreciation run during the period of November.
Thousands of radical are diagnosed each twelvemonth with life-threatening humor cancers similar leukemia and lymphoma. A cure exists.
Over the past 30 years Be The Match, operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, has managed the astir divers marrow registry successful the world. The enactment works each time to prevention lives done transplant.
Residents tin assistance by attending a screening lawsuit oregon joining the Be the Match registry:
* To articulation the Be the Match Registry, individuals indispensable beryllium betwixt the ages of 18-40.
* It takes 3 minutes to implicit the online registration signifier and 30 seconds to swab your cheek.
* Be the Match volition trial the kit and adhd you arsenic a imaginable donor to the registry.
* You lone donate your stem cells if you are called arsenic a lucifer for an idiosyncratic patient.
* Donation is Free. All travel, meals and edifice costs for the donor and 1 companion are covered by Be the Match. All aesculapian costs are covered by patient’s security oregon Be the Match.
Two Camden Clark EMS employees became Be the Match stem compartment donors to enactment the organization’s efforts to prevention lives passim the world. Both Yolanda Roberts and Katie Drinks were screened and joined the Be the Match registry and person some donated astir 350 cardinal humor stem cells each to 2 patients.
“About 12 years ago, determination was a constabulary officer’s woman successful Parkersburg that needed bony marrow. A batch of police, occurrence and EMS workers each went and got swabbed to beryllium a imaginable match. I honestly forgot astir it until I got the telephone that I was a lucifer to idiosyncratic successful Sweden,” Roberts said.
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