It’s World Blood Donor Day. Pat Michaels, director of media and public relations for OneBlood says it comes at the perfect time due to the "summer slump" in donations. “High schools are out, colleges and universities scale back. They don’t have as many people attending classes and that accounts for about 18% of the donations at OneBlood,” Michaels said. Add summer travel on top of the student slowdown, and blood donations are down. While the donations are fewer, the need remains high. “For anything from routine surgery, could be an emergency, it could be for cancer treatment platelets that are needed for that, you’re getting something that likely came from a blood donor at OneBlood. It could save someone’s life,” Michaels explains. MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/blood-donation-world-blood-donor-day/67-96b1aff8-4258-4bcf-a4ff-73f678e411e2 ►Subscribe: https://on.wtsp.com/youtube ►Website: https://www.wtsp.com/ ►Facebook: https://facebook.com/10TampaBay ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/10TampaBay