Camas High School senior Satya Hariharan, 17, is spending the final days of summer organizing a blood drive to help offset a supply shortage triggered by the recent heat wave.
The blood drive is 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday at Camas Public Library, 625 N.E. Fourth Ave.
Hariharan organized the event through Bloodworks Northwest’s scholarship blood drive program.
Bloodworks offers students ages 16 to 21 college scholarships if they host a new blood drive during the summer in their community.
Blood collections usually go down by about 20 percent during the summer with schools and colleges on break and donors on vacation. Heat waves compounded that problem this year, causing some mobile blood drives to shut down early to ensure the comfort and well-being of donors, according to Bloodworks.
Bloodworks Northwest supports 90 Northwest hospitals, and provides 55 percent of blood components used in the Portland metro area.
