Dengue is on the horizon. Are we prepared?
Dengue fever also known as breakbone fever, is an infectious disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic morbilliform skin rash.
Emergency Wing
A demanding night for the team
Sometimes, Emergency team has to undergo difficult tests and the night of 16 December was one such night which had in store a difficult situation for the team.
Newbies @ Sankalp Understand ‘Blood Emergencies’
Sankalp India Foundation has is an organization with a volunteer base of 25-30 people. Every year some of them move out based on life’s other priorities and new ones come in. These new volunteers are mainly the ones who are in their first year of professional courses. This year too there were 6-8 new volunteers who joined in.
September 2010: Steering clear of the troubled times..
There were tense moments during the time of Ayodhya Verdict. But during the verdict and the other time during the month, nothing stopped Sankalp from working towards the Goals. Here is what the Organization or rather all the wings in the organization have been workign upon to push Sankalp as a whole, a step closer to its dream!!
August 2010: First anniversary of Disha Karnataka Helpline and Dengue..
Currently, according to the Annual plan of Sankalp, most of our working wings tend to relax and come out of the execution semester and gear up for the planning semester. But, this year, the situation is such that, execution is still on the highest priority leaving less time for planning.
The dengue crisis
Recently a volunteer of the Sankalp emergency wing was interviewed on the current blood shortage that has hit the state due to dengue. Read on-
Q. Tell me about the situation?
Emergency Blood Donor Registration Drive @ Raichur
Sankalp is organizing a emergency time voluntary blood donor registration drives across the state in order to ensure that the organisation is able help people in emergencies. As part of this program we are expanding to Raichur.
Platelet Apheresis - A Complete Guide
The cheers for the regular blood donors is that now they can choose to donate selective components of blood too. Get to know more about the process of donating platelets selectively.
Becoming a Platelets Donor
By donating your platelets through platelet apheresis (ay-fer-ee-sis), you give a very special gift of life. Most patients undergoing a treatment for dengue, bone marrow transplant, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation treatment or organ transplant need platelets in order to survive.