The last edition of the Patrika laid the prelude to understanding and handling adverse events in outdoor voluntary blood donation drives. Like mentioned last time, Sankalp India Foundation has designed a protocol for handling such events. In this edition of the Patrika, we shall focus on identification of Adverse events in blood donation drives. A problem well stated is like a problem half solved.
Let us see what January had in store for us at Sankalp.
With most of the request getting handled at the Disha helpline, the emergency team handled 26 emergency requests this month out of which 14 were for negative groups. Interestingly, more half of these requests were from outside Bangalore.
Technically, it was not a celebration - but we could not think of a more meaningful way. We thought inching a few children closer to better care and treatment could be a nice way to express the feelings on the Republic Day.
On February 1, 2014 Sankalp's Rakta Kranti team reached a special landmark - the collection of 10,000+ units of blood in 10 months of the ongoing financial year.
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Though the national guidelines are very clear, it appears that several blood banks are recovering the service charges from patients suffering from thalassemia. We continue to receive correspondences from various parties enquiring about the relevant guidelines. Here we share letter number: S.12015/30/2002 NACO(BS) from NACO to SBTCs dated 23 January 2008.
It was early January 2014 when Bangalore was undergoing severe shortage of blood. Even the most common groups like A+ and B+ were out of stock. The reason being the holiday season, when most of the colleges were off and companies were having fewer drives.
Mizoram is the state with literary rate at 95%, second only to Kerala.
Sundarbans, formerly Sunderbunds, vast tract of forest and saltwater swamp forming the lower part of the Ganges Delta, extending about 160 miles (260 km) along the Bay of Bengal from the Hooghly River Estuary (India) to the Meghna River Estuary in Bangladesh. The Sundarbans are a part of the world's largest delta formed by the rivers Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna. The whole tract reaches inland for 60-80 miles (100-130 km).A network of estuaries, tidal rivers, and creeks intersected by numerous channels, it encloses flat, marshy islands covered with dense forests.A network of estuaries, tidal rivers, and creeks intersected by numerous channels, it encloses flat, marshy islands covered with dense forests.
