Sankalp News

One more blood request was catered! One more life was saved! The volunteers of Sankalp emergency wing had one more story to tell!

Although the graph of blood availability in the state has stabilised over the years in Bangalore, summers are still a time of extreme need. Dengue is one killer disease which demands for a lot of units of blood to be available in blood banks. Rakta Kranti Bangalore team is gearing up to the task of making blood available in these critical months

As Sankalp embarked upon the journey of building a statewide helpline for blood, the promise was made to visit every district of the state and network the good blood banks to the helpline. When the helpline was formally launched last year, sufficient work had been done to cover more than 80% of the area form where blood requests are generated. The idea was to do the remaining before Sankalp turned 7 on 23 May 2010

Adding impetus to our plans for an extension throughout the state of Karnataka is a donor registration programme being designed by the Emergency Wing volunteers of Sankalp. These volunteers take up blood requests from all corners of Karnataka and at times need to ask people to donate blood to satisfy the request.