Disha

Sankalp's Disha grows bigger and better: Goes across Karnataka

Sankalp's brainchild, Disha, which makes sure to network all major blood banks across Bangalore city with a single toll free helpline, i.e., 1062 was started off close to 3 years ago. With massive publicity campaigns and dogmatic acclimatisation to laid down policies and ideas, the helpline today has become indespensable for Bangalore city. Everyday 17 blood banks from across the city update their stocks and any person looking for blood just dials this single helpline number to get to know where the unit of blood is available.

CTC Disha 2nd Anniversary-Blood Bank Meet

CTC Disha 2nd Anniversary- Blood Bank Meet:
On this Saturday the blood bank meet has been organised in Conference Hall, NIMHANS. More details about the event will be given soon.

Rakta Kranti Companies:

The 4th ITPB Camp will be held on 25/09/08 (thursday). It will be held in 3 halls and over 350 donations are expected. Hence five blood banks will be called, which are Lions, Rashtrothana, NIMHANS, Victoria and St Johns. The camp will be held from 11 a.m to 6 p.m.

CTC Disha Anniversary coming up

CTC Disha:
The 2nd anniversary of Disha is coming up on 13th September. This initiative of Sankalp is a blood helpline number 1062, which connects 13 major blood banks in Bangalore. The program which will be held for the occasion will be soon given.

Emergency wing:
There were 11 blood requests in the previous week. But there were no donations done. Almost all the requests were fulfilled by calling 1062 or the other prominent blood banks in the city.

(080) 1062 echoing around the city..

CTC Disha:
The volunteers visited Rainbow on Wednesday (23/04/2008). They were asked to go on air and talk about 1062 and Sankalp for about 5 minutes. Now Rainbow regularly highlights this number and its importance.

On Friday (25/04/2008), volunteers visited Radio City. They were posed a lot of questions and at the end of the discussion, they have agreed to broadcast about this number and regularly highlight it.

BMTC as life saviours

CTC Disha:

A part of Phase 0 of CTC Disha Awareness campaign was to use BMTC buses as one efficient means to reach out people. Initially, the permission to stick the stickers in all 5000 buses was seeked. But, the permission was given for about 100 buses. So, at Majestic Bus Depot, the buses will sport 6 stickers inside, which says “Looking for Blood in Bangalore: Call (080) 1062”.

Buses turn life savers

If you drop into Majestic Bus Stand late at night someday, you may be able to see 4 boys working with full steam to add another role to the fleet of BMTC buses- the role of a life saver.

BMTC has come forward to take the message of Life -"Looking for Blood? Dial 080-1062) to the masses by encouraging the sticking of CTC Disha stickers in about 100 buses. Thank you BMTC - for helping save lives.

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New inclusions in CTC Disha

Hurray!

After a long battle with the government hospitals on the need to have a Centralized Blood Information System and the need for the govt hospitals to participate, finally there has been some good sign

Just recently Victoria Hospital and Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health agreed to participate in CTC Disha by providing their blood statistics daily.

Disha Stage II

Congratulations to all the fans and supporters of Project Disha. We have got the CTC Disha Stage II started. Stage II of Disha will involve doubling the number of blood banks that today share the blood availability with us. This means that we will soon have blood availability across 10 Blood Banks available through CTC.

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