The nonprofit organization that’s responsible for the frequent blood drives here in the Morongo Basin is renovating its aging laboratory in San Bernardino. Lifestream is seeking the public’s help raising the funds needed to keep those blood donations stored correctly with two new freezers that cost approximately 150,000 dollars each. The freezers have to be custom built for the lab, as they need to keep the processed blood donations at -4 degrees fahrenheit, all while staff handle and enter the freezers multiple times a day.
Lifestream says their current freezers are over 20 years old and are reaching the end of their lifespan, and the new freezers will be built without using freon to meet the California Air Resources Board guidelines.
Donations for the fundraiser can be collected at any of the blood drive donation sites, or by visiting www.lstream.org/freezers
