The Statewide Helpline for Blood has a new person taking care of it. Jyothi Crasta joined Sankalp on 24th June 2013 to manage the 'response centre'. Jyothi has done her Master Of Arts in Sociology at Christ University, Bangalore.
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. The hospital identified the patient's blood group as Bombay blood group and for the past 7 days they had been looking for blood donors across Turkey without any success.
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. Last week, there was a blood bank in Bangalore willing to spare a couple of 100 units of blood to blood banks who might have lower stocks and they found no takers. Good stocks, frequent camps and reasonably full blood shelves.
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. When he went back to his office he realised that most of his friends had donated blood a week back since the company had organised a large blood donation drive where 400 units were collected across all offices.
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.
For once, medical experts couldn't agree more with this home spun wisdom that aptly describes sickle cell - an incurable genetic disorder which damages vital organs like liver, kidney, heart and spleen. The disease manifest at the school going age and patient rarely reaches adulthood.
