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Donating plasma twice a week as allowed
' I by local commercial plasma centers is "not
good for one's health," according to the
medical director of the Central S.C.
American Red Cross.
Dr. Todd A. Kolb of the Red Cross said
federal standards allow a donor to give 50
liters of plasma a year. The Red Cross and
the World Health Organization permit a
donor to give only 15 liters each year.
I USC students account for 60 to 75 percent
: of the donors at two of Columbia's commercial
blood banks and plasma centers.
} Kolb said he doesn't object to commercial
blood centers, "but they create an at
muapiicre uiai connects money witn blood,
and that's not Wealthy for us as a community."
THE HIGHLAND Donor Center on
Gervais Street pays $10 for a plasma
donation and a $5 finders fee to donors
bringing new customers to " iter, according
to Joyce Andrews, ... -^er. The
center also gives $5 bonuses to donors who
give five times within three weeks.
Blood is removed from a donor and
separated into whole blood a plasma,
which is 98 percent salt water. The red blood
cells are put back into the body, Andrews
said.
Andrews said recent advertisements in
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business. Kolb said these ads encourage
excessive donation.
"WE DON'T need four or five plasma
centers in Columbia. It's an abuse of the
donor population, and the primary concern
should be the health of the donor," Kolb
said.
But a large number of donor centers and
blood banks in cities like Columbia is not
uncommon, Kolb said. ''College and
university towns foster commercial blood
collecting," he said.
Plasma centers and blood banks are
licensed and regulated by the federal
government. Kolb said the centers "had to
be meeting the standards or their doors
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The Elliott Bank deals only
with whole blood, which donors are allowed
to give once every eight weeks. The bank
pays $10 for each donation. Jenrette said 75
percent of the Elliott Bank donors are USC
students.
THE RED Cross will probably collect
more blood from USC students since the
number of Red Cross workers at the
university has been increased, Kolb said.
The Red Cross is trying to make students
more aware of the need for blood, he said.
The large number of commerrini hinrui
banks and plasma centers in Columbia do
not take away potential Red Cross donors,
Kolb said.
"We're not competing for donors," he
said. "Volunteer and commercial donors
come from two different elements of the
population."
KOLB SAID blood collected at commercial
centers has a higher hepatitis rate
than blood from Red Cross donors.
i ne Ked Cross is Columbia hospitals' only
source of blood and supplies blood for 22
hospitals in the Midlands.
Blood collected at the Elliott Bank is used
in hospitals in Dade County, Fla. The blood
bank is paid $35 for each unit of blood sent to
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where it is used to make drugs to treat
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