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.
Sometimes, Emergency team has to undergo difficult tests and the night of 16 December was one such night which had in store a difficult situation for the team.
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.
There were tense moments during the time of Ayodhya Verdict. But during the verdict and the other time during the month, nothing stopped Sankalp from working towards the Goals. Here is what the Organization or rather all the wings in the organization have been workign upon to push Sankalp as a whole, a step closer to its dream!!
Currently, according to the Annual plan of Sankalp, most of our working wings tend to relax and come out of the execution semester and gear up for the planning semester. But, this year, the situation is such that, execution is still on the highest priority leaving less time for planning.
Recently a volunteer of the Sankalp emergency wing was interviewed on the current blood shortage that has hit the state due to dengue. Read on-
Q. Tell me about the situation?
Volunteer- Dengue has hit really hard this year. We received thrice the normal number of blood requests this week. The number of emergency requests has alone crossed the average of 10 per day. Blood banks are running dry on platelets.
Sankalp is organizing a emergency time voluntary blood donor registration drives across the state in order to ensure that the organisation is able help people in emergencies. As part of this program we are expanding to Raichur.
The cheers for the regular blood donors is that now they can choose to donate selective components of blood too. Get to know more about the process of donating platelets selectively.
By donating your platelets through platelet apheresis (ay-fer-ee-sis), you give a very special gift of life. Most patients undergoing a treatment for dengue, bone marrow transplant, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation treatment or organ transplant need platelets in order to survive.
The dengue infections have reached their peak in Bangalore. We have scores of patients around the city receiving treatment for the same. A direct impact of this is the increase in workload of the Sankalp Emergency Team.
