Using plasma in higher volumes may make a difference
It is estimated that around the world, 2.5 million people bleed to death each year. That’s more than die from HIV and Malaria and a lot of those deaths are pre-ventable. In many cases a rapid volume of plasma mixed with Red Blood Cells has been able to save the life in time.
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Six blood donation drives were held in the month of November with 412 units of blood collected. We would like to thank and congratulate Airtel, Deutsche Bank, Hypercity, KPIT and AMD for their continued support to the cause of voluntary blood donation.
"A whooping 91 blood requests came to the emergency wing of Sankalp in the month of November. We would have taken this as a bad mark on the availability of blood and voluntary blood donation normally; however, closer look at requests portrayed a different picture.