Sankalp News

Even as Sankalp's Disaster Management and Mitigation Wing worked through the highs and lows of the disaster prone Sikkim, Sankalp's Blood Donation Wing scaled new heights this September with Rakta Kranti and Disha achieving new personal landmarks. Here is a snapshot of Sankalp BDO for Sep 2011

Rakta Kranti:

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 has hit areas of Sikkim on Sunday (18/9/2011) evening.

A true story of poor utilisation of some rare units of blood. (Names and identities have not been mentioned to protect privacy)

At a time when the city of Bangalore was in a mini crisis for blood, Rakta Kranti Bangalore became the lifeline for the city. A total of 8 blood donation drives were conducted leading to a collection of 662 units of blood!

At a time when colleges are either busy in examinations or are closed for summer/semester breaks, this huge collection is attributed to the spirit of responsibility shown by the industry. 

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. In some cases the disease develops to the life threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever (bleeding, low levels of blood platelets and blood plasma leakage) and dengue shock syndrome (circulatory failure). Dengue is transmitted by species of mosquitoes.