Emergency Wing:
There were 8 blood requests in the previous week. Because of good stocks in the city, known through CTC Disha, most of the blood requests were fulfilled by calling either 1062 or other blood banks in the city. Out of these requests, one of them was for single donor platelets Apheresis and other for Bombay group.
Bombay group is a rare group almost considered as a sub-group of blood group O. It is proven that, 1 in 17600 people has Bombay blood group. The request which Sankalp got this week was like this: a person met with an accident, had multiple fractures and was very critical. The donors from our database had donated recently, thus could not donate this time. Ramaiah blood bank had 2 donors in its database. When contacted, one of them came forward and donated. The operation was done with only two units. This request was also a learning experience to our volunteers.
With the beginning of the semester in MSRIT, all the volunteers are back from the holidays. Thus, the Karnataka Wide Blood Search has been resumed and a registration drive in IISc is being planned in the weeks to come.
Rakta Kranti:
(a) Schools: The competitions in R.T.Nagar Public school will be held this week. And the Blood Awareness Week will start in Kendriya Vidyalaya (Jalahalli). With the beginning of college, the volunteers will now organise most of the programs on Saturdays and other holidays.
(b) Companies: The blood donation drive held in Komarla Apartments started off the drives for Rakta Kranti drives, for the winter. About 36 people came forward to donate, but 23 units were collected at the end of the day (13 were deferred for various reasons). The highlights about this camp was that, there was a 18year old and a 58year old (the extremes of the age criteria for donating blood) donating blood, both for the first time. Read more about it here .
Although all reports indicate that the city is running at possibly the lowest levels of stocks for certain blood components, it is not that Sankalp is just complaining about it. Over the 2 month period from June 2010 to July 2010, Sankalp organised multiple blood donation drives with more than 1100 units of blood being collected. A million thanks to all the organisers and donors for standing up to the challenge. Here is a brief note on all the various camps held with different organisations.
The dengue infections have reached their peak in Bangalore. We have scores of patients around the city receiving treatment for the same. A direct impact of this is the increase in workload of the Sankalp Emergency Team.
The World Blood Donor Day is celebrated on a world-wide scale on 14th June. This time Sankalp has taken the initiative to organize a Blood Donor Week 
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On the 22nd of May this year, Sankalp India Foundation celebrated being 7 years old. To mark this milestone, a small event was organized at MSRIT. Well wishers, parents of volunteers, members from the blood banking community, friends, and people from organizations with whom we work were all part of the event.
Bombay group information
Read more about blood request and Bombay group here.