Blood donation Camp in India

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KOLAR: The district unit of the Democratic Youth Federation of India and Red Cross are jointly organising a blood donation camp at Patrakartara Bhavan here in association with the R.L. Jalappa Blood Bank, to commemorate the 101st birth anniversary of revolutionary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

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Coimbatore: The Lions Club of Coimbatore, Phoenix, will conduct a blood donation camp at the Coimbatore General Hospital on October 2 at 9 a.m.

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Rajahmundry: Mayor A. Veeraraghavamma on Wednesday launched a rally of blood donors from the autonomous college. A song on the importance of blood donation authored by Malladi Radha and composed and sung by noted playback singer S. Janaki was released by the Mayor at a meeting organised after the rally.

Municipal Corporation Medical Officer M.V.R. Murthy, Sanjeevini Blood Bank founder K. Srinivas and others spoke. Arts College NSS programme officer A. Sarala, Lions Club of Samskruti president Peraiah Sresti and others participated.

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Corporation Bank is organising a blood donation camp in Bangalore in association with Rotary, TTK Foundation and Rastrothana Blood Bank on October 2, on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. The camp will be held at Rotary House of Friendship, Lavelle Road and at the bank's Rajajinagar branch between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Interested persons can call For details : 9845167908

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NEW DELHI:
To mark National Voluntary Blood Donation Day, 32 centurion blood donors from across the country and 22 voluntary blood donation organisations were felicitated at a national seminar at India Habitat Centre here on Wednesday.

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CHENNAI: The State government has proposed to set up six mobile blood banks across the State, said Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society's project director Supriya Sahu.At a continuing medical education programme organised by TANSACS and the Department of Transfusion Medicine of Government Stanley Medical College, she said 82 per cent of the blood procured by blood banks in the State was through voluntary donations.

The State stood second in voluntary blood donation, next only to West Bengal. To improve the quality of blood, component centres would be established in six government teaching medical institutions taking the total to 12 such centres across the State, she said.Ms. Sahu urged hospital authorities to present a proposal to the State government to set up a pilot project for nucleic acid testing that would provide the results of test for infection in two days.The mobile blood bank in Madras Medical College to which the Government General Hospital is attached would shortly roll out it's mobile unit.

Stanley has been awarded for three consecutive years for its work in blood collection and testing. This year it was presented an award for its research work.The blood collected at the hospital is only through voluntary donations, said N. Rajakumar, head of the department. At present, the collected blood is tested for malaria, HIV, Hepatitis B and C and Syphilis.The CME programme was meant for postgraduates, house surgeons, students and doctors to sensitise them to the rational use of blood.

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MADURAI: A blood donation camp was organised by Shine Educational Trust on the occasion of its sixth anniversary celebration here on Sunday. The camp was inaugurated by K. Napoleon, founder.

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PUDUCHERRY:
The Department of Sociology, Tagore Arts College is organising a blood donation camp at the blood bank of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research on October 24 (today) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Traffic awareness: The National Service Scheme unit of Saradha Gangadharan College organised a programme on traffic awareness on October 21.Inspector of Police, Traffic, Radhakrishnan stressed the importance of traffic rules on the occasion.

Participated: Principal of the college P. Balakrishnan and NSS Programme Officer S. Pandurangan were present


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Blood donation camp

At a blood donation camp conducted by Rotary Club Vizag Couples, 73 donors of Pydah PG College donated blood for AS Raja Blood Bank, which can produce platelets too and an equal number of donors to the Rotary Blood Bank. Club president K.R.B. Prakash and secretary P. Krishnakanth coordinated the event. Chairman Pydah Krishnamohan motivated students to contribute to the noble cause.


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Blood donation camp held

TIRUNELVELI: A blood donation camp was organised at Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project Hospital by Anuvijay Township Ladies' Club on Friday to mark the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Project Director, KKNPP, K.C. Purohit and Club president Anjana Purohit inaugurated the camp. Mr. Purohit lauded the club members for the blood donation camp in which 55 persons donated blood.


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Blood donation

Thiruvananthapuram: All Kerala Blood Donors Society, Navachetana Social Circle and Medical College NSS unit will organise a workshop on voluntary blood donation on November 22 at the Medical College auditorium. The workshop will deal with technical aspects of blood donation.



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Blood Donation

    * Person above 18 years of age and over 50 Kgs. in weight can donate blood once in three months.

    * A normal adult has five to six liters of blood in his/her body of which only 300 ml is used during blood donation.

    * This blood is replaced by your body within 24 to 48 hours!

    * No special diet, rest or medicine is required after blood donation.

    * The donor should not have taken any medicine in the last 48 hours.

    * The donor should not have contacted jaundice in the previous three years.

    * Every donor is given a medical checkup prior to donation to see if he/she is medically fit and doesn't suffer from anemia, high blood pressure etc.,

    * The donor cannot contract AIDS or any other disease by donating blood.
      Make Blood donation a habit .

    * There are many persons

      including females who has donated blood more than 10 -20 times in their life

      Start with your B'day or from just today. Your little contribution can save someone's life.


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Blood donation camp

Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions will organise blood donation camps at Dwarakanagar and Gopalapatnam on Sunday. Contact 92480 56800 or 92480 31514 for details .

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KADAPA: Thirty persons donated blood at a blood donation camp organised at Rayachoti Government Hospital on Monday by a Trust, a NGO, to be sent to the injured persons of Mumbai terror attack, Trust convener Y. Nagi Reddy said.

Doctors of Ruia Hospital, Tirupati, led by Dr. R.R. Reddy collected blood fromthe donors to be sent to needy hospitals in Mumbai, Janardhan, co-convener of the NGO said.

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GUNTUR: As a solidarity gesture with the Mumbaikars and the security personnel, who fought to drive away the terrorists, about 200 students of Vignan Group of Educational institutions donated blood on Vadlamudi campus on Thursday.

The Tenali Government Hospital doctors Mallikarjun Rao and M.I Rao conducted the camp, at which the group chairman Lavu Rathaiah was present.


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Blood donated

TIRUPATI: At a blood donation camp organised here on behalf of the JD Foundation, as many as 50 persons, mostly belonging to the downtrodden communities have donated blood. Jedda Rajasekhar and his followers also have distributed fruits and bread to the patients in the government hospitals here.

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Blood donated

A blood donation camp was held at Arilova on Monday jointly by Al-Ameer College of Engineering and IT and Chaitanya Sravanthi, a local NGO, in memory of two students who died in an accident two years ago.

Shrin Rehaman, Chaitanya Sravathi president, college secretary and correspondent I.H. Farooqui, Rotary Blood Bank medical officer Kamala Kumari and others were present.

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Students donate blood

CUDDALORE: Volunteers of the National Service Scheme and the Youth Red Cross of IFET College of Engineering, Villupuram, donated 50 units of blood on Tuesday.

At a blood camp held on the college premises, a medical team from the government hospital, led by Arulselvan, collected lood. Those who participated included principal S.S. Jayachandran, organiser D. Saravanan and programme officers Murugan and Tamil Selvi (NSS) and Sivaprasad

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CHENNAI: Nearly 150 students of A.M. Jain College participated in a blood donation camp organised on the college premises in Meenambakkam on Tuesday. Principal G.K. Francis inaugurated the camp, which was organised in association with the Lions Club of Tambaram East, said a press release.

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Blood donation camp

SALEM: The Amway Opportunity Foundation, corporate social responsibility division of Amway India, conducted a blood donation camp here on Tuesday.

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Blood donation camp organised

Chennai: Over 80 units of blood were collected from students and staff of Sankara Arts and Science College, Enathur, Kancheepuram during a blood donation camp organised by the Rotary Club of Madras Fort recently. A team of doctors and staff from Rotary Central TTK-VHS Blood Bank participated in the camp inaugurated by K. Rajesh, president of the Club.

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GUNTUR: Total quantum of blood needed in Guntur district in 2009-10 financial year has been projected at 45,000 units coming from voluntary blood donors, for which the APSACS proposes to involve youth in a big way to promote awareness among them. On the second day of the three-day pilot grassroots level action plan preparation exercise taken up in Guntur district for the first time in the country, the meeting identified the need for DNA-PCR kits at all blood banks for organising quick HIV test to reduce new infections through transfusion.

The need for replacement blood donations at Government blood banks would be increased to 40 per cent from current 20 per cent and issuing blood only from voluntary donors will come down to 60 per cent from current 80 per cent. The APSACS Additional Project Director, B. Kalidas, said that the number of blood donation camps had also gone up.

Youth would be encouraged to open blood donation clubs in colleges and affiliated to political parties. Training would be given to doctors on utilisation of blood concept of transfusion by developing new IEC material. Revival of insurance scheme for voluntary donors had also been proposed, Balasahayoga District Coordinator Md. Subhani said.


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Blood donation camp

Students of Soka Ikeda College of Arts and Science for Women, Madhanangkuppam, donated 63 units of blood at a camp organised recently by the Rotary Club of Aarch city Madras and the college.

The Club's president V.S. Sridhar lauded the students for serving the society through blood donation. On the same day, the students observed Global Harmony Day in commemoration of the birthday of the college's honorary founder Daisaku Ikeda.

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Tuticorin: The Tamil Nadu Government Employees' Association conducted a blood donation camp on its premises here on Saturday to commemorate its silver jubilee celebrations.

Inaugurating the camp, Collector R. Palaniyandi praised the gesture of donors, especially those who pledged to donate eyes and other organs after death.

A. Mathivanan, zonal president of the association, presided over the function.

M. Santha Kumar, district president; R. Peter Barnabass, State Secretary, J. Ravi Shankar, Dean, Government Medical College, Tuticorin; S. Uma, Deputy Director of Health Services; P. Santhi, Blood Bank Medical Officer; and K.S. Veerabagu, State President, Tamil Nadu Rural Development Officials Association, among others, were present and addressed the gathering.

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Blood Banks in Chennai

Bull's Eye Blood Bank

C.P.J.M. Blood Bureau

Dhanvandri Blood Bank

Dr Anjaneya Blood Bank & Component Centre

Holy Laboratory Services

K J Hospital 24 Hour Blood Bank

LLMRF Public Charitable Trust Blood Bank

Sree Aurobindo Blood Bank & Blood Components Research Centre

The Madras Voluntary Blood Bank

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Blood donation camp held

A blood donation camp was organised by the Customs House on Thursday in connection with the forthcoming International Customs Day. The camp was organised in association with A.S. Raja Blood Bank and Shankar Foundation Eye Hospital.

Chief Commissioner of Central Excise and Customs (Vizag Zone) P.N. Vittal Dass inaugurated the camp in which a large number of officers and staff donated blood.

Competitions are being organised for schoolchildren as also officers and staff in connection with the International Customs Day on January 27, according to Additional Commissioner of Customs (Prev.) K.C. Sekhar.

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Blood donation camp

A blood donation camp was organised by the Vijayawada Malayalee Association at Rotary Red Cross Association Hall at Gandhi Nagar on Sunday. Mayor M.V. Ratna Bindu inaugurated the camp. Over 100 members of the association participated in the camp.

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Blood grouping camp

The Youth Red Cross Society of VLB Janakiammal Polytechnic College, Coimbatore, will organise a blood grouping camp on the college premises at 9.30 a.m.

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Blood donation at GVP college

A blood donation camp was conducted at Rushikonda campus of Gayatri Vidya Parishad College for Degree and PG Courses under the School of Management Studies on Wednesday. Principal P. Rajaganapathi inaugurated the camp conducted by K. Syamaladevi of KGH. Nearly 100 students donated blood. GVP Coordinator D. Dakshina Murthy and SMS Director K. Rajani participated.

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Blood donation

Over 100 doctors, paramedical, class IV and other staff of Nizam's Insitute of Medical Sciences donated blood as part of Republic Day celebrations. The function was inaugurated by NIMS director Dasari Prasada Rao.

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Students campaign for Tiranga blood donation camp

VIJAYAWADA: In the run up to the Tiranga Unity Blood Donation Camp on February 3, students from different colleges took out a rally on Mahatma Gandhi Road on Friday, which culminated at Indira Gandhi Municipal Corporation Stadium.

Students displaying national flags as well as placards with slogans calling upon people to donate blood, participated in the rally with enthusiasm. The students mainly came from P.B. Siddhartha College of Arts and Science, SRR & CVR Government College, Montessori Mahila Kalasala, SDM Siddhartha Mahila Kalasala and Prabhas Degree College.

Meanwhile, a representative of the Lanco Foundation, which is organising the camp in association with the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS), handed over a cheque for Rs.25 lakhs towards the foundation's contribution for the organisation of the camp to IRCS Krishna district unit chairman and District Collector N. Sridhar at Machilipatnam.

Mr. Sridhar, at a meeting with representatives of employees associations in the district, called upon all government employees to actively participate in the camp and donate blood to pay tributes to the martyrs of Mumbai terror attacks.

In Vijayawada, a registration counter was opened on the premises of Bezwada Bar Association, where camp motivation committee chairman and physician G. Samaram exhorted the lawyers to donate blood on February 3.

The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation conducted an awareness meeting at Tummalapallivari Kshetrayya Kalaksehtram to motivate sanitary workers, members of the Chief Minister Empowerment Yojana (CMEY) groups and Development of Women and Child in Urban Areas (DWCUA) groups. Municipal Commissioner P.S. Pradyumna explained the need for donating blood. IRCS Krishna district secretary A. Sridhar Reddy felt that the programme would be a grand success if every person in the city responded to the cause.

VMC CMOH M. Satyanarayana Raju spoke.


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Blood donation is an altruistic gesture, says Tiwari

VIJAYAWADA: Apparently moved by the overwhelming response to the Tiranga Unity Blood Donation Camp at Indira Gandhi Municipal Corporation Stadium on Tuesday, Governor Narain Dutt Tiwari said it was a humane gesture, which would go a long way in sending out positive signals to the society at large. The Governor dedicated the event to the martyrs of Mumbai terror attacks and Pingali Venkaiah, the designer of the national flag. He headed straight to the camp and spoke to a couple of youngsters to pat them for their noble act.

A sense of nationalism gripped people in the vicinity when the Governor unfurled the Tiranga, even as his right hand went up to salute the flag. Paying glowing tributes to Pingali Venkaiah, he said it was this Tiranga that had spurred many a youngster like him to take the plunge in the freedom struggle. Such an event would also serve the purpose of sensitising the common man on blood donation. Invoking great personalities closely associated with the freedom movement, he spoke about Bankimchandra Chatterjee who wrote the National Song over a century ago and the fiery Subhas Chandra Bose and his Azad Hind Fauj. Lacing his speech with poetry in Hindi that rekindled the spirit of patriotism, he said as a youngster he was imprisoned for over two years for taking part in the freedom movement.
Healthy sign

The message of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to the organisers of the event and people of the city was telecast live by a Telugu channel on an LCD screen.

Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal, the brain behind the event, said it was heartening to see people from all walks of life coming forward to donate blood. "I can see a large number of girls, women and physically handicapped. This is a healthy sign and it will spur others to follow suit," he said. Senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah NaiduMayor M.V. Ratna Bindu, Krishna district Collector N. Sridhar, Joint Collector B. Ramaiah, Sub Collector Gaurav Uppal, Municipal Commissioner P. S. Pradyumna, Police Commissioner K.V. Rajendranadh Reddy, vice-chairperson of Krishna Zilla Parishad T. Padmavathi, physician G. Samaram, former MP Chennupati Vidya and others were present.


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Blood donation camp held

VELLORE: Thirty-one volunteers donated blood at a blood donation camp organised by Apex Supportive Asylum here on Sunday. P. Karthikeyan, Mayor, inaugurated the camp. A team of doctors led by Bhaskar, Blood Bank Officer of Government Vellore Medical College Hospital, collected the blood.

D. Vijayakumar, secretary of Apex Supportive Asylum, presided.

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Blood donation camp held

A blood donation camp was organised by the Visakhapatnam Division of National Federation of Insurance Field Workers of India in connection with the 22nd death anniversary of Sridhar Vasudev Kalvit, who was one of the founder members of the federation.

A total of 30 insurance employees donated blood at the camp, organised under the aegis of the Red Cross Blood Bank. General secretary of the federation's Visakhapatnam Division Thadi Chandrasekhara Rao, president B. Rama Rao and national general secretary R. Venkateswara Rao participated in the camp.

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Govt launches accreditation programme for blood banks for quality

New Delhi, An accreditation programme for blood banks/blood centres and transfusion services has been launched to ensure the quality and safety of collecting, processing, testing and transfusion of blood and blood products.

National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Health Providers (NABH) launched the programme last month under which the basis for assessment of blood bank shall include compliance with the accreditation standard and statutory/regulatory requirements. The accreditation programme assesses the quality and operational systems comprehensively in place with facility, before issuing accreditation certificate.

In reply to a written question, Minister of State for Home Panabaka Lakshmi told the Rajya Sabha that the Government has taken a number of steps to make adequate arrangements of blood for the needy patients from blood banks and to ensure availability of virus free blood. This included augmentation of voluntary blood donation by conducting 48,000 voluntary blood donations camps annually in the country.

As per the Drug & Cosmetics Act 1940 & Rules thereunder, it is mandatory for all licensed blood banks to screen each unit of blood for HIV, hepatitis B and C, syphilis and malaria before use for transfusion purposes.

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Blood camp

Tiruvannamalai: Arunai Engineering College (AEC), Tiruvannamalai, along with other institutions, conducted a blood donation camp on its premises on Monday.

Collector M. Rajendran inaugurated the camp. E.V.V. Kamban, M.D., Arunai Engineering College, V. Shanmuga Sundaram, Youth Red Cross Programme Officer, Anna University, Chennai, were present.

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Blood donation camp

CHENNAI: Sri Ramanujar Engineering College, Kolapakkam and Lions Club of Tambaram organised a blood donation camp recently, in which more than 100 students donated blood. Students took a pledge to donate blood periodically.

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Blood donation camp organised

TIRUCHI: Over 50 students, including girls, donated blood during a voluntary blood donation camp organised jointly by the Cauvery College of Engineering and Technology, Perur and the Doctor's Blood Bank and Research Centre on Wednesday. Chairman and former State Minister N. Nallusamy presided over the camp and senior consultant cardiologist Ramakrishnan Nursing Home and Chairman, KMC-Heart City M. Chenniappan was the chief guest. Former chief trustee of the Tiruchi branch of IMA, Rameswari Nallusamy and Principal D. Nagarathinam felicitated the donors.

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People urged to donate blood

Belgaum: The Belgaum district president of the Family Planning Association of India, S.B. Kulkarni, has appealed people to donate blood.

Inaugurating a rally of college students to create awareness about blood donation here on Saturday, Dr. Kulkarni, who is also vice-president of the district branch of the Red Cross Society, said blood donation would go a long way in saving the lives of pregnant women and accident victims.

The rally was organised by the office of the District Health and Family Welfare in cooperation with voluntary organisations and educational institutions. District Health and Family Welfare Officer Dilip Kumar Manoli and officials of various organisations, including District AIDS Control Society, participated in the rally.


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Body donated to CMC Hospital

VELLORE: The body of 82-year-old Shanmugasundaram, a retired panchayat official residing in Avalkara Street in Kosapet, Vellore, who died after a brief illness on Saturday, was donated to the Christian Medical College (CMC) Hospital here on Sunday, through Udhavum Ullangal, Vellore.

According to a release from Udhavum Ullangal, Shanmugasundaram, who is the father of Rotarian Anbumaran, earlier expressed his willingness to donate his body.

On information from Sahayam, organ donation coordinator of the CMC Hospital, officials from Udhavum Ullangal went to the house of the deceased person and arranged for the donation. After the family members paid homage to Shanmugasundaram, his body was handed over to the CMC Hospital.


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Blood donation camp organised

NEW DELHI: The Sacred Heart Cathedral of the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese at Gole Dak Khana organised blood donation camp over the weekend. The camp was organised as the inaugural function to mark the golden jubilee of the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese. It was inaugurated by Delhi Archbishop Vincent M. Concessao and Bishop Franco Mulakkal. The camp was handled by the Red Cross and the Holy Family Hospital.

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Blood donation camp

To mark its successful completion of three-and-a-half years in Visakhapatnam and as a social responsibility, Big Bazaar organized a blood donation camp in association with A.S. Raja Blood Bank on Monday.

Civil Assistant Surgeon of the Government Regional Eye Hospital M. Ravi Kumar inaugurated the camp. All the Big Bazar staff numbering about 100, including Store Manager Vamsee Kishore G.K. and G. Srikant (HR) participated, in the camp.

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Blood donation at NSTL

VISAKHAPATNAM: To commemorate the birth anniversary of Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar, employees of Naval Science and Technological Laboratory organised a blood donation camp on the NSTL campus on Wednesday under the aegis of NSTL Seva Samithi.

NSTL Director V. Bhujanga Rao who inaugurated the camp said that NSTL regularly took up service activities and voluntarily donating blood twice a year was one such.

The camp was supervised by Lakshmi Saraswathi and her team from AS Raja Blood Bank.

Forty members of the NSTL fraternity donated blood at the camp. NSTL Principal Associate Director S.V. Rangarajan, members of NSTL Civilian Employees' Union, NSTL SC, ST, BC Association, Works Committee, JCM, officers, staff and families attended.


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Blood camp

CHENNAI: About 80 units of blood were collected at a blood donation camp conducted at SSN School of anagement and Computer Application in Kalavakkam in association with Rotary Club of Madras Perungudi and VHS TTK Blood Bank.

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Blood donated

Chennai: A blood donation camp was organised by Kalyanmayee (southern region), the women's welfare association of AAI on Friday.

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Blood donation camps

Vijayawada: The Lions Club of Vijayawada East and Teaching Fish are organising a series of 15 blood donation camps in May and June at different

branches of Teaching Fish, i.e. at Moghalrajapuram and Governorpet in the city, and Guntur, Rajahmundry, Tenali, Khammam and Eluru. The Lions

Blood Bank Vijayawada will collect the blood. The first of these camps is being organised on Saturday at Teaching Fish Spoken English Institute near

Siddhartha Arts College and the last one would be on June 15, according to Teaching Fish chairman R. Shashank.

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Blood banks struggling to meet demand

Scarcity is attributed to summer holidays as a majority of donors are college students

Rotary Red Cross Blood Bank is forced to insist on replacement of blood bags

Almost 70 per cent of road accident victims die for want of blood

VIJAYAWADA: Blood may be thicker than water, but supplies of it during summer are something difficult to get. City blood banks are reeling under a summer slump, with people often being forced to return empty-handed or with fewer units than what they actually need.

There simply is not enough blood available to continue to meet all routine hospital needs and respond to emergency surgeries. Blood banks have been struggling to keep their inventories afloat expecting blood donors to respond to their call just to keep pace with the needs of the hospitals.

"Hospitals take to selective surgeries during summer months. But we are unable to meet even the limited demand," laments S. Madan Mohan, Chief Medical Officer of the Rotary Red Cross Blood Bank at Gandhinagar.

This blood bank, which has the record of highest collection of blood units in the State, on an average collects nearly 800 units of blood every month and almost 8,000 units annually. But it is forced to insist on replacement of blood bags due to the paucity.

The scarcity is mainly attributed to summer holidays for educational institutions. A major chunk of blood donors are college students who are either busy preparing for exams or are away on a vacation. Factors like heat exhaustion and the list of dos and don'ts for the donors also play spoilsport. A number of organisations are holding blood donation camps. A recent camp organised by the Lions Club of Vijayawada East, in coordination with the Teaching Fish, generated only 30 units of blood.
Poor response

"It was a poor response but we intend to continue our efforts and expect good response to the camps we propose to conduct during May-end and later," says B. Jagan Mohan Rao, president of the club.

Only 50 per cent of the population is 'fit' to donate blood and only four of every 1,000 persons come forward for the purpose. Close to 95 per cent of the donors are males and only the remaining are females, thanks to the low haemoglobin percentage or their anaemic condition.

The State needs nearly 8 lakh units of blood every year against the availability of 6.75 lakh units, indicating a clear dearth of nearly 1.5 lakh units. "Almost 70 per cent of the road accident victims die due to want of blood," laments Dr. Madan Mohan. Blood can be stored in the temperatures of 2-6 degree centigrade for 35 days. But when fragmented into components like red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma and platelets, they can be stored for a varied period.

"There is a dire need to shatter the misconception that blood donation leads to weakness. A donor's blood is replenished in three weeks. All we need to realise is that today it may be somebody... tomorrow it could be you," Dr. Madan Mohan says.

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Blood donation camp by Youth Congress

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress organised a blood donation camp at Rajiv Bhawan here on Thursday to mark the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Apart from a large number of Youth Congress workers, newly-elected East Delhi MP Sandeep Dilkshit and Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress president Anil Chaudhary also donated blood.