State Representative Steve Xiarhos has posted an urgent call for blood donors.
The Fifth Barnstable District lawmaker says Cape Cod and Falmouth hospitals are in urgent need of O-negative and O-positive blood as well as A-negative and B-negative donations.
There's a Cape Cod Healthcare blood drive today from 10:40 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Harwich Police Department on Sisson Road and another is scheduled for Wednesday at the Stoneman Outpatient Center in Sandwich.
The Dennis Police Department will be holding a blood drive on Friday. Additional donation events will also take place through the end of the month.
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