You’ll find few places more sterile than a Red Cross center for donating blood. The tubes, the bulbs, even the blood: it all runs the same. If any place was to be free of bias and inequity, it would be this. And yet, it's there.
You’ll find few places more sterile than a Red Cross center for donating blood. The tubes, the bulbs, even the blood: it all runs the same. If any place was to be free of bias and inequity, it would be this. And yet, it's there.
You’ll find few places more sterile than a Red Cross center for donating blood. The tubes, the bulbs, even the blood: it all runs the same. If any place was to be free of bias and inequity, it would be this. And yet, it's there.
Black Inventors Who Changed The World: Dr. Charles R. Drew
Today, the Red Cross is fighting on the front lines to eradicate the coronavirus, and it was the invention of
Dr. Charles R. Drew that gave the Red Cross a lifesaving technique. Dr. Drew invented the first blood bank in America and Great Britain. Through blood transfusion research, the amazing doctor developed a groundbreaking technique to store blood plasma.
At the start of World War II, Dr. Drew was asked to head the medical program Blood for Britain, which served as the model for the 1941 Red Cross pilot program. Using his technique of long-term blood preservation and storage, or blood banking, he helped save the lives of thousands of allied soldiers.