With an unbelievable surge in the number of people affetcted by Dengue in our country, the number of people requiring platelet transufsion has shot up. Sankalp's emergency Wing phones have not stopped ringing for the last few days. Requests for upto 25 units of platelets seems common and it is only getting worse by the day.

What is Dengue Fever?

Dengue Fever and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (a more severe form) are the most common mosquito-borne viral diseases in the world.Dengue Fever is an illness caused by infection with a virus transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, which feed exclusively during daylight hours. There are four types of this virus (serotypes 1 to 4) which can infect you ...

Thalassemia is a medical condition that requires the patient in some cases to undergo many blood trnsfusions. Many children are affected from this condition. The disease is a genetically inherited and is very prevalent in India. The article intends to give the reader a brief overview of Thalassemia

What is Thalassemia?

Since it's inception, Sankalp has called itself a blood donation organisation. Those are big words for a bunch of engineers, because blood is a vast area in the medical field. understanding blood becomes highly critical for all volunteers and work in a more meaningful manner. there have been tremendous advancements in science and this has led to various new things.

Sankalp has been organizing plenty of blood donation drives in the past few years. Thousands of donors have donated blond. However there is always a small section of people who don not get to donate blood. Many of them specially ladies are anemic and hence not eligible for blood donation.

Sankalp India Foundation, NIMHANS and ISBTI (Indian Society For Blood Transfusion and Immuno Hematology), Karnataka will organise a 2 day workshop on blood components for blood bank officers and technicians from all across the state of Karnataka.

Few of us are not very convinced with the fact that Donating blood is a very safe process. Various myths along with the lack of awareness amongst the people contribute to the unwillingness to donate blood. Here we will discuss some of the common reasons why blood donation is a very safe procedure.

Walk into any blood donation drive and you see only a handful of donors from a huge potential donor base. Call someone to donate blood in emergencies for a friend and you see people come forward but have too many questions in the head. Often people are worried about a lot of things when asked to donate blood.

Every time you walk into a blood donation drive organized by Sankalp, one of the pre donation measures adopted is a Hemoglobin test. Do you know what is it all about? Read on to know the value of that little prick on your finger before the actual donation.