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Mothers can save lives with cord blood donation at NGMC
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LifeCord Director Yesi Sevilla, left, and Northeast Georgia Medical Center Labor and Delivery Manager Heather Standard reveal a new plaque showing the diseases cured with cord blood. The plaque will hang in the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Women’s Pavillion.
While pregnant women welcome a child into the world, few may realize they can save another at the same time with a simple donation. Choosing to donate the blood from the umbilical cord can help treat more than 80 diseases, said Yesi Sevilla, director of LifeCord at LifeSouth community blood centers. “Either it is going to be used for transplant or it is going to be used for research that improves neonatal diagnostics or transplant clinical trials,” she said.