Events in July 2013
Emergency Wing
Emergency Wing
We write to you to update you upon the current status of the plan that Sankalp India Foundation is working upon to try and provide help to the people suffering from the massive disaster that has struck Uttarakhand.
23rd February 2013: Sankalp India Foundation, organised for 3 units of Bombay phenotype for a critical patient receiving treatment at Istanbul University, Turkey.
On 20th February 2013, Sankalp India Foundation received a blood request from the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul University, Turkey.
This article highlights an important aspect of planning that must be incorporated by all blood banks to prevent acute shortage of blood in summer season.
This month when we send the newsletter most of us in Karnataka have a relatively comfortable situation when it comes to blood stocks.
Replacement for blood is just refusing to go away.. and now it has started affecting voluntary blood donation as well!
A person got his father admitted in a reputed hospital for a cardiac surgery. He was told that 5 blood donors were required to be brought in before the surgery.
ByManjari Mishra, TNN | Mar 14, 2013, 04.25 AM IST
MANDLA/JABALPUR: Tribals in Kundam, a settlement 40 km off Jabalpur, call it a black demon, one who strikes select families and ensures an early and agonizing death by sucking its victims white.
ISBTI Karnataka organised the annual CME at VIMS Bellary on 23-34 February 2013. Sankalp India Foundation was invited to give a talk on "Our Experience With Bombay Blood Group". The CME coincided with the first ever international transfer of Bombay Blood Group organised by the organisation.
We conducted 6 blood donation drives in the month, collecting 748 units of blood.
Though the stories of achievement and growth have their exceptional charm - sometimes the story of mere survival itself looks interesting enough to be shared. Here we share with you the roller coaster ride we had managing the Day Care Centre for thalassemia.
A dream came true for the volunteers of Sankalp as we organized blood donation drive in a Blood Mobile on 9th-10th Jan 2013.
CHENNAI: IIT-Madras scientists have blood on their hands - and nobody is complaining. A team of scientists from the department of engineering design has been successful in creating enough red blood cells from stem cells to be used as 'artificial blood' in people who need transfusion.