Mangalore: Indian Red Cross Society, Health Dept celebrate Blood Donor Day

Mangalore: Indian Red Cross Society, Health Dept celebrate Blood Donor Day

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, June 15, 2014 (DHNS): In what was a new experience for the blood donors, blood donation camp was held in a luxurious in-house built blood collection bus in Mangalore on Saturday. Students of Athena College and St Aloysius College were seen eagerly waiting for their turn to get into the bus to donate blood.

On the occasion of World Blood Donors’ day, the district unit of Indian Red Cross Society (ICRS) in association with Health and Family Welfare Department, District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit and Karnataka State Govt Employees Association had organized voluntary blood donation camp at NGO Hall premises in the City.

 

 

 

 

 

The ‘Blood Mobile Bus’ from Bangalore arrived at Mangalore to facilitate the blood donation camp. The four seater Volvo bus painted red, has all modern facilities for the blood collection, examination and storage.

The bus which is on a two-day visit to Dakshina Kannada district, conducted blood donation camp for general public in Sullia taluk on Friday and in Mangalore on Saturday. If 78 units blood was collected in Sullia, 24 units were collected in Mangalore. The mobile bus that functions under Karnataka State Red Cross Society, had visited North Karnataka districts in June last year, while it has been visiting Southern districts this year. Mobile blood donation camps are organized in various districts in June to mark the World Blood Donors’ Day. The blood Collected in the Blood Mobile Bus is handed over to the district government hospital of the particular district.
 
Addressing the blood donors’ at a formal programme, District Health and Family Welfare Department officer Dr Shivkumar said that at present, only 45 per cent of the need for the blood is met. To meet the increased demand for blood, more number of donors’ have to come forward.

On the occasion district Red Cross Society distributed two wheel chairs to Mangalore Railways to help the movement of ailing patients in the railway station. Certificates were given to those who have joined the hands with the Red Cross Society in organizing blood donation camps in the past.