UMPI holding bone marrow drive
PRESQUE ISLE — The University of Maine at Presque Isle will be holding a bone marrow drive on Tuesday, March 12, at 11 a.m. in the Campus Center’s Allagash Room.
The bone marrow drive, coordinated by the organization Delete Blood Cancer, DKMS, is being held to help inform people about how bone marrow donation works and how it can help give people with blood cancer a chance at a long life, as well as registering people to become bone marrow donors.
The organization will cover all of the expenses of donating bone marrow that the donor would normally have to cover out of pocket.
DKMS hopes to increase their success rate of registered donors by eliminating the financial burden an individual donor would have to face.
This event is open to members of the public who are at least 18 years of age or older. For more information, call Ashley Gallop at 768-8065 or e-mail ashley.gallop@gmail.com.
