Blood Donation Drives

From definition to identification to prevention,the Sankalp Patrika, in the last 3 months has carried some extremely important articles describing aspects related to adverse donor reactions. Although all our efforts must be focussed on providing the right ambience for blood donation, there are situations when one or more adverse events do occur.

There was a time when we at Sankalp considered September and October has months of relatively less workload, however as you will see, now each team is fully occupied serving their mission objectives all year round. Let’s see what happened in the month of September 2014.

The month of September saw 16 blood donation camps being organized and 982 units of blood collected. 1299 people participated in these events.

Rakta Kranti

Usually the first 2 months of a calendar year have sluggish numbers in terms of voluntary blood donation drives. Many organizations request for time to draw plans for the year, along teams for the same etc. In February Sankalp was able to organize not more than 6 blood donation drives in this period with 397 units of blood being collected in these drives.

Rakta Kranti

With the onset of the new financial year, Sankalp Rakta Kranti Team looked to make a strong start with plenty of blood drives catering to the summer period. On the back of a year with close to 12,000 units collection having gone by, the team wanted to maintain the same momentum. In summary, 1055 units were collected in 13 drives. We had about 3% of donors having post donation complications and the percentage of deferrals for the month was 22.3.

The following are some recommendations which we believe will help in reducing events of non-compliance in blood donation camps.

Regular blood donors are the cornerstone of blood safety and voluntary blood donation. The retention of blood donors is directly related with the experience they have when they come to donate blood. Quality, safety and donor retention are inseparable. Continuous focus on quality and safety is an essential responsibility of every organisation which is involved in the process of voluntary blood donation.

Blood Donation Drives

We conducted 6 blood donation drives in the month, collecting 748 units of blood.

ITPB
In the first week of Jan, the blood stocks were low in the city. Due to new year's eve, companies were not organizing blood drives. ITPB is one of the organizations whom we can bank upon in such crisis situations. And it came to rescue by organizing blood camp in a blood mobile for the first time.