The Rakta Kranti team of Sankalp looks to organize safe and high quality blood donation drives all through the year. Back in March 2007, when this was started the aim was to create a movement to push Karnataka towards 100% voluntary blood donation. Here we bring to you what direction was taken up by Sankalp in the last 1 year for Rakta Kranti.
Sankalp India Foundation has been running the state-wide helpline for blood since 2006. Any person looking for blood in Karnataka needs to call just a single number 9480044444 to get the blood availability information in the city. On enquiring the person is provided the blood bank's name, number of units available, the address and the contact number.
From definition to identification to prevention,the Sankalp Patrika, in the last 3 months has carried some extremely important articles describing aspects related to adverse donor reactions. Although all our efforts must be focussed on providing the right ambience for blood donation, there are situations when one or more adverse events do occur.
April is a busy month at Sankalp India Foundation(SIF). This is the time when SIF reviews the work that the organisation has done in the past 1 year and lays out strategy for the year to come. Sankalp operates through teams which focus on different areas of the organisation's work. There is an emergency team, a team for the helpline, a team for thalassemia and so on. The process starts with accumulating all the performance and feedback data for the last year of work.
Last month we looked into various aspects on definition of an adverse event. Steps to help in grading of severity and categorisation of the complication was laid out in detail. We look at the next step in this edition: We take a closer look at what strategies can be adopted to control/prevent these adverse reactions
Sankalp India Foundation is committed to improving the access to care and management for the children suffering from thalassemia. In order to ensure that each child walking into one of the centers supported by us gets adequate (if not at par with the best) care and management, we constantly strive to find solution to the most pressing problems of the management of this disorder. Significant progress was made in the month of February to ensure proper management of thalassemia for the poorest of poor.
Sankalp India Foundation has been running the state-wide helpline for blood since 2006. Any person looking for blood in Karnataka needs to call just a single number 9480044444 to get the blood availability information in the city. On enquiring the person is provided the blood bank's name, number of units available, the address and the contact number.