Health & Fitness
Commack Blood Drive To Honor Fallen Suffolk Police Officer
The 14th annual blood drive will remember John Ciano. There is a nationwide blood emergency and a chronic shortage of blood supplies in NY.
COMMACK, NY — The 14th annual blood drive honoring fallen Suffolk County police officer Glen Ciano is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in Commack, county officials announced.
The blood drive will be held at the Commack Fire Department, at 6309 Jericho Turnpike, Commack.
There is a nationwide blood emergency and a chronic shortage of blood supplies in New York, according to officials. There is currently only a one-day supply of Types O-, O+, B-, as well as a critical shortage of platelets, far below the ideal seven-day inventory of blood products.
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The blood drive is held in memory of Ciano, who was responding to a call when he was killed
by a drunken driver in Commack on Feb. 22, 2009.
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