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?

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.

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.

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.

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On 22nd August 2008 an accident victim was brought to hospital with multiple bone fractures. He was immediately admitted in ICU. Within a period of 2-3 days he was stable enough to be operated to make sure that his bones are aligned. Still doctors could not operate him because of unavailability of blood.

Yesterday was ma first blood donation, and i felt that i did something amazing.

1. Introduction
2. What is better whole blood or components?
3. Why are blood components being used?
4. Why components therapy is better?