Sankalp BDO activities
By: Dr. Amrit Kaur Kaler, MD., Assistant Professor of Pathology, MVJ Medical College & Research Hospital, Bangalore.
Neocytes are new red cells which comes from bone marrow afresh. They have a longer life span, say about 120 days in the circulation. These young red cells survive longer after transfusion and therefore may contribute to the extension of intervals between transfusions.
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.
Blood Transfusion is not the safest form of treatment and must be avoided as far as possible . Body has its own mechanism to recover and heal and it must be given a chance before administering any transfusion. Experts in blood transfusion science always claim that about 90 % transfusion in India can be avoided.
What is Bone Marrow?
More about the event will be posted soon.
A blood donor came up with the question as to what he/she should do if he/she gets to know that he/she has been tested positive for any disease?
A donor may test positive for HIV, Hepatitis –B, Hepatitis-C, Syphils or Malaria. Here, Dr Shivram C, Consultant & Chief Manipal Hospital Transfusion Services answers the question from a perspective of a donor who tests reactive (positive) for Hepatitis B infection (HBsAg-Reactive).
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We had 5 blood donation drives in the month of March where 409 donations and over 550 registrations. The details of these drives are given below:
The month started with a blood donation drive at TATA consulting engineers Limited on 3rd March. This day was also the Founder’s day for TATA group. The team red volunteers did a great job in spreading awareness among the people and we had 57 donations here.
Bombay blood group requests have increased tremendously in the past few weeks since January. Even in the month of February, there were 4 requests of Bombay blood group, out of which two were from Bangalore and 1 from Vadodara and 1 from Vijaywada. If you know any Bombay blood group donors, please let us know.
Two days after celebrating his centennial birthday on Feb 12, a retired oil worker from California, Louis Kerker marched into Houchin Community Blood Bank and donated blood on National Donor Day (in United States of America), which was also Valentine’s Day.
The Initiative for Better Blood Banking is pleased to present to the Blood Banking fraternity of the state of Karnataka a workshop on the ‘Role Of Transfusion Medicine in Thalassemia’. The workshop will be held at the state of the art NIMHANS convention centre on the 17th and 18th of June 2011.
Sankalp India Foundation had an evenful October at Bangalore. Amid all the celebrations and festivities of Dusshera, Diwali volunteers made sure they stuck o their core jobs to ensure the organiation's work never came to a halt. Here is a snapshot of what happened in the previous month in Bangalore for Sankalp
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