Get Swabbed and Save a Life!

Employees swab samples for the marrow registry during a drive at the COC in August.

It’s easy.

All you have to do is get your mouth swabbed. That’s the first step to saving a life.

The nonprofit Be The Match will hold a bone marrow drive Tuesday, Oct. 29 at the County Administration Center in downtown San Diego in search of potential donors for its national registry. Using that, it matches donors to patients suffering from diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma or sickle cell anemia and in need of bone marrow transplants. The samples collected will help the nonprofit expand the registry.

Test whether you may be able to help at the upcoming event, which will be held between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on the first floor of the CAC, located at 1600 Pacific Highway.

No appointments are necessary. Both County employees and the public are invited. Donors must be between the ages of 18 and 44.

For more information on the bone marrow drive, or to make a donation or get involved, contact Shelley Baker at Be The Match at (714)296-8479 (cell) or sbaker@nmdp.org.  You can also visit the organization’s website.