Monument Health Searching For Potential Donors During April’s Be The Match Bone Marrow Donation Drive

Monument Health encourages people to register as potential donors at the Be the Match Bone Marrow Donation Drive during the last week of April. Participants will not donate bone marrow on site but will be registered in a database of potential donors where they can potentially be matched with people who need a transplant. Donation registration events are taking place:

April 21, The Monument, 6-8 p.m.

April 22 and 23, Sam’s Club, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

April 24, Black Hills State University, Rapid City Campus, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

April 27, Monument Health Rapid City Hospital, outside Nourish, 10 a.m.-2: p.m.

April 28, Monument Health Cancer Care Institute, 10 a.m-2 p.m.

Every three minutes, someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer like leukemia, and bone marrow transplants are an important and lifesaving component to treatment. Bone marrow donations are low risk — most involve no surgery and are comparable to donating plasma.