CTC Disha
April was a busy month for the Disha team. The team started work to ensure that the online update mechanism that has been setup to ensure better inputs for other Sankalp team comes on track. The initial few sheets have been added and more is being done to provide regular accurate inputs.
The Brand New Sankalp T-Shirts are on their way. It costs Rs 250, gray in color and is available in Small (S), Medium (M), Large (L), Xtra Large (XL) sizes.
One of the unique characteristics of Sankalp is the fact that all volunteers are not from the medical community. Stumped? Almost all of the 30 volunteers who work on various aspects in the filed of blood are engineers!.
The emergency wing of Sankalp are always on their toes attending to emergency blood requests. Requests for rare blood groups, from places not heard of and more. All these have become a part of their daily routine. Helpling people find the right unit of blood at the right time has been the overall objective, and the team does it efficiently well.
One more blood request was catered! One more life was saved! The volunteers of Sankalp emergency wing had one more story to tell!
Although the graph of blood availability in the state has stabilised over the years in Bangalore, summers are still a time of extreme need. Dengue is one killer disease which demands for a lot of units of blood to be available in blood banks. Rakta Kranti Bangalore team is gearing up to the task of making blood available in these critical months
As Sankalp embarked upon the journey of building a statewide helpline for blood, the promise was made to visit every district of the state and network the good blood banks to the helpline. When the helpline was formally launched last year, sufficient work had been done to cover more than 80% of the area form where blood requests are generated.
Adding impetus to our plans for an extension throughout the state of Karnataka is a donor registration programme being designed by the Emergency Wing volunteers of Sankalp.
"The common dream, the combined effort, the sharp quest for improvement, the systematic project cycles and a sincere effort to get things done for the cause of the nation." Sankalp volunteers would be happy to describe themselves
It is one thing if a person dies of an incurable disease. It is another thing if a person dies in spite of medical expertise being available to save him and yet some other constraints preventing the treatment from getting through.
Just the beginning of another usual weekday. Most people are still counting down the days towards the weekend and others are going on without any difference in their lives. But for a small group of people, 23rd March, the tuesday held a special meaning.
