Medi, just to clarify, that number they are telling you at the drive is your hemoglobin level.
It is not your iron level but it is a good reflection of iron stores in most people. As also noted above there are other causes of low hemoglobin that do not involve low iron.
The Red Cross is just in the business of finding good donors, not working up the cause of low hemoglobin when they find it. Evaluation of anemia is in your health care providers domain.
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