News and Updates for December 2014
Rakta Kranti
December was a busy month in anticipation of the winter shortage. In all 12 blood donation drives were organized in December collecting 1223 units or blood. Let’s have a look at each camp.
December was a busy month in anticipation of the winter shortage. In all 12 blood donation drives were organized in December collecting 1223 units or blood. Let’s have a look at each camp.
In the month of November 2014 Sankalp India Foundation organised 11 blood donation camps where 976 individuals came forward to donate blood and 775 units of blood were collected. The month of November traditionally has several large blood donation camps in the city.
The following are the highlights of the activities at the Thalassemia Prevention, Management and Cure Program of Sankalp India Foundation for the month of August.
After the busy summer months of organising a huge number of camps, Sankalp slowed down the pace in August.
Let us see what May had in store for us at Sankalp.
16 camps were organized in the month of June collecting 1171 units of blood.
Let us see what May had in store for us at Sankalp.
Emergency wing was the first team of SIF which started with the pledge to do whatever it takes to ensure no one suffers due to shortage of blood. Today the team takes up blood requests which are difficult to be handled by the existing blood stocks in blood banks or by simply getting a few donation done.
The 10th anniversary of Sankalp India Foundation presented the organisation with the opportunity to review the work done through the past years and formulate the strategy for the decade to come.
Let us see what April had in store for us at Sankalp.
There were 10 blood donation camps organized by the team in the month of April. A total of 1061 units were collected in the events.
Sankalp India Foundation has been running the state-wide helpline for blood since 2006.
Let us see what January had in store for us at Sankalp.
Let us see what December had in store for us at Sankalp.
With most of the request getting handled at the Disha helpline, the emergency team handled 26 emergency requests this month out of which 14 were for negative groups. Interestingly, more half of these requests were from outside Bangalore.