A single can create million smiles!!
As we all celebrated the Republic Day with high patriotic spirit, there was a group of Volunteers from Healing Touch Society, who have stood out to make a difference!
Thanks to the generous support from DKMS, HLA typing which usually costs a significant amount is made very affordable for several families in India. Through their support, Sankalp has been actively identifying candidates for BMT across the country. Over the last 3 months, nearly 500 HLA samples have been collected. Here is a snapshot of HLA typing events held at different places.
Sankalp India Foundation has been strategically planning the blood donation drives to meet the critical hour of blood shortages both in the summer and winter months, instead of clustering the blood donation camps on the days of national importance or when the city has enough stocks. The winters of this year, has also been very challenging, specially the last week of Dec and the first week of Jan'2019.
As part of the continuous learning initiatives adopted by Sankalp, a 2 day meeting for coordinators, nursing staff and doctors from the multiple thalassemia day care centres where Sankalp is involved was organized in Bangalore on the 23rd and 24th of January 2019
