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adieu versus Red Cross
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“We would not accept those cred-
because all those credits mean is
is End. |oney,” Swanton said. “The stu-
Kennetli &nts do not owe us any money at
f Coliseum, * \y a( Ji e y wanted us to accept
Med. SociJ' 5 ’ an d we aren’t in that end of the
isiness. ,
ociation, siiWe didn’t want the money. We
n jj planted the blood.” She said that
p, Rudder Sj , r
m can t transfuse money or paper
nation, Rnij^ditS.
Swanton said that the Red Cross
y psented AABB demands to send
Kenned tllood to commercial blood banks,
te Coliseunl “We were designated so many
es to send blood there (a com-
iin„ iiercial bank in Chicago.) This
>rill Field,ifjmmercial bank was taking our
ilunteers’ blood and selling it for,
8 pm. Irndness knows, as much as they
ited to,” she said.
Hill said that there are 1,600
in-commercial banks in the AABB
s MSC2it|^ on ^ two or t ^ iree commercial
links, so this was not really a prob-
Rudder 401,fm. He said the commercial banks
lined at the inception of the AABB
p m « Id because of Federal Trade
Sunday dwlonimission regulations, could not
arbitrarily kicked out.
“No new paid-donor banks are
'“imitted. They are in disfavor,”
[ill said.
THE CONTROVERSY on cam-
s arose because Student Gov-
H /l'l| nment chose to remain with Wad-
I It/ly for their 1976-77 and 1977-78
Hood drives. A Student Senate
immittee had been formed to in-
tiagte the two programs.
The committee recommended
Student Government remain
"ike off# Wadle y because:
inues Mil ^ Wadley is far from local in
itsider oiljpg Statistics show that two per
young 0i|, n t 0 f T exas a&M’s donation is
^ed locally, and 98 per cent is
bes thepm e( j j n other areas of Texas and
tropolta|h er states.
01111 lT / Wadley repays the processing
if the blood is used in Brazos
) ^ ra ™ S *unty, but Red Cross does not.
ing ofc
[adley replaces the units on a two-
rone basis. Red Cross replaces
lits on a one-for-one basis.
seling it 1
tment to|
ufferinei
ncestra|^ Wadley can ship parts of
, 4! jood. It is possible to treat four
° ny Jtients with one pint of blood by
11 ' usu Jling derivatives to help patients
y , U [living leukemia, hemophilia and
Hhes S I ncer ' In fact, both Wadley and
ftd Cross produce the same blood
fo^nefilmponents and derivatives.
,r of meci
enforcfr*^ Texas A&M donations can be
ms indjocated. In the past Student Gov-
incest, fftiment gave Wadley permission to
ng proMstribute the credits to charity pa-
reasing^nts. Red Cross cannot do this.
e committee considered this an
mjijej Jftogement on students’ rights,
incest o
would take donors away from the
Wadley drive because it was
scheduled earlier in the semester
than Wadley’s drive and donors can
only give once every 56 days.
Student Government had also
been granted the exclusive right to
sponsor blood drives on campus by
the Concessions Committee.
Rick Allen, president of the Stu
dent Engineers Council, ques
tioned the committee’s power to
grant exclusive rights to the Student
Government.
Bea Uvacek, chapter chairman for
the Brazos County Red Cross said
she thought McClure’s rationale
was ridiculous. She said the quota
for their drive was only 200 units,
and she believed a university the
size of Texas A&M could handle
both drives.
SWANTON DISAGREED with
the Senate committee’s reasons for
choosing Wadley. She said that
none of Wadley’s blood is used loc
ally. Spokesmen for St. Joseph’s and
Bryan Hospitals said that all of their
blood is supplied by the Red Cross.
Uvacek said that Wadley often
does not honor its reimbursement
obligations, and is extremely delin
quent in honoring the obligations it
does fulfill.
Wadley records show that 2,440
A&M credits were released to cover
Aggies’ blood needs during 1976.
Charity patients accounted for 1,704
of these credits. Processing fees eli
gible for repayment totaled $1,830
— 61 units used at $30 each.
Alpha Phi Omega’s records show
that $1,470 has been reimbursed
since Sept. 1, 1976. Those records
do not go back earlier than this.
Uvacek claimed that many people
do not receive the money they are
entitled to after requesting it, and
many more people do not know
they are eligible for reimburse
ment.
Donna Ferrebee’s premature
baby required four units of blood in
July and August 1976. The Bryan
resident didn’t receive her $84
reimbursement until December;
about four months after she con
tacted Student Government.
Susan Price, former executive di
rector of Student Government, said
it usually takes six weeks to process
the reimbursements.
Uvacek also said that Wadley
often does not fulfill its replacement
promises with the local hospitals.
Hill said, “Every time I talk to
the APO and Student Government,
they say we are taking care of every
thing they know about. Students are
having problems because they
haven’t contacted Student Govern
ment.”
Hank Baker of Alpha Phi Omega
agrees that students do not know
enough about their blood program
and how to apply for reimburse
ments.
“We’re going to put on a big cam
paign to straighten this out next
fall,” he said. He said the people
who donate know the procedure,
but other students don’t know any
thing about the blood program.
Despite the Senate committee’s
report, there is no difference in the
types of blood components and de
rivatives Wadley and Red Cross
produce. Both produce cryoprecipi-
tates, for the treatment of
hemophilia; platelets, for leukemia
patients; Serum Albumin, to com
bat shock; Gamma Globulin, for
prevention of measles and infectious
hepatitis; and others.
Swanton said the right to distrib
ute credits to charity patients
through the credit system is ques
tionable because someone pays for
the blood product anyway, whether
it is Medicaid, Medicare or private
assistance. She said that any non
profit organization that could afford
to give blood away wasn’t non
profit.
Hill said that to be tax-exempt
under its non-profit state charter,
Wadley must have charity pro
grams. He said that Texas A&M
students have brought charity pa
tients to Wadley’s attention and
“have been very helpful.”
A Red Cross spokesman claimed
the AABB is so ineffective that some
hospitals are accepting direct ship
ments of blood from the Red Cross.
Methodist Hospital in Houston is
one of these. Though spokesmen for
the hospital deny receiving blood
from the Red Cross, blood replace
ment records show that at least 114
units of blood were shipped to
Methodist in 1975-76.
These units fulfilled blood re
quirements of University President
Jack K. Williams, A&M student
Terry Miller, and Dr. William M.
Scott, employe of the TTI depart
ment at A&M.
Dr. Williams used 28 units of
blood while undergoing heart
surgery at the hospital. Red Cross
records show that it replaced 25 of
those units and Wadley replaced
the remaining three. Dianne Mc-
Glaun, director of Donor Services
at Wadley, claims that Wadley re
placed the entire 28 units. Rosalyn
Guess, in the Methodist’s blood
donor department, could not locate
the hospital’s records of Williams’
lan $5,0
six chili
the onf
ii father j
jThey added that, as residents of
azos County, students were pro-
|cted automatically under the Red
oss plan. By allowing Wadley to
kndle the blood drive students are
so protected under Wadley’s pro
report id
inc() |t ®The Red Cross earlier had
plied to have a campus blood
n of init| r ' ve ' n cooperation with the Stu-
e-timej 611 * Engineers Council. The re-
goes onPest was denied by the Conces-
jj scm si ns Committee, the University
eery cori>mmittee that reviews requests to
of guiltPicit or sell on campus.
The request was denied on a rec-
mendation by Fred McClure,
ay incemgo Student Body President.
A ,i|lC pleClure said the Red Cross drive
as her!)
encours
the ro!(|
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blood needs. Williams was unavail
able for comment.
Guess denied that Methodist re
ceived blood shipments from Red
Cross.
Pressure had been put on hospi
tals that received Red Cross blood
in violation of the AABB’s regu
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said. One hospital in particular was
told they would have to get out of
the AABB if they ever, accepted
another unit of Red Cross blood.
A new national agreement be
tween the AABB and the National
Red Cross is being negotiated this
week in Washington, D.C. Swanton
said she doesn’t know exactly what
the new agreement will foe, but “it
won’t be like the old one.”
“We know that our Red Cross na
tional office has said, under dire
threats from all 57 administrators
and chapter chairmen, that we will
never get into a system again where
we ship credits or where there’s any
indebtedness built up,” she said.
Robert Harvey, newly-elected
Student Body President, said
there’s a chance both groups will
have blood drives on campus next
year. A committee to research that
possibility will form in September.
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