The details relating to Blood requests
As usual, things were going helter skelter for volunteers of Sankalp when they heard of another patient in need of the ‘golden unit’ - a bombay blood group unit. With already 3 requests for the same running in parallel, finding another unit was as good as searching for a needle in a haystack as big as one can imagine.
Sankalp India Foundation has is an organization with a volunteer base of 25-30 people. Every year some of them move out based on life’s other priorities and new ones come in. These new volunteers are mainly the ones who are in their first year of professional courses. This year too there were 6-8 new volunteers who joined in.
High school student Aaron Cheng shares a speech about thalassemia which he recently delivered to his classmates. I share this inspiring testimony with you below.
To My Classmates
On 1st of March 2009 we got a request for blood for an anaemic patient. On further dialogue we came to know that patient is admitted in a Government hospital and needs Bombay Blood group units. Doctor informed us that at least 5 units will be required in a period of 3-4 days as patient was suffering from severe anaemia.
This week marks the beginning of almost all the Sankalp volunteer’s first real-life activities. There are 2 activities going on simultaneously. The Project Tiranga volunteers are to start working on “Mission Siachen”, spread the word about Siachen and make and collect as many hand-made postcards as possible, with 26th January as deadline basis. Blood Donation Organization (BDO) volunteers (freshers) would start taking blood requests by accompanying a senior volunteer.
Case Details:
Name: Lat*&
Mobile: 93********
Group: B -ve
Email-ID: lat&^%*(@yahoo.com
Donor: Dev Kanchen Vasantharajan
Date: 21st September 2007
Date of Donation: 23rd September 2007
(personal information of patient masked as per Organizational policies)
Description:
All the "Q & A" below may be formed out of wrong conceptions.... please read it very carefully and do the necessary changes.
Q. Special problems faced in an apheresis donation?
A. Even if the weight is above eligibility (60 kgs +) and still, if the platelet counts are low on that day, the donor fails the final eligibility test and cant donate. Another problem with apheresis is that the process of donation takes a longer time that a normal donation.
