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A Step Towards Safer Blood Donation Drives

It is said that if you stop learning, you stop creating history and become history. At Sankalp a practice of striving to improve continuously is imbibed in all volunteers. Hence training and knowledge sharing sessions form an important aspect of projects. In the last 2 financial years, Sankalp has organized 300+ blood donation drives. In this financial year more than 70 have been organized in 4 months’ time. We have blood bank teams from 7 institutions coming in for drives, close to 200 staff including technicians, doctors, volunteers manage the show.

Our experience with sharing the vision of Bombay blood group at National Meet on Total Voluntary Blood Programme - Vision 2020

Association of Voluntary Blood Donors, West Bengal (AVBDWB) organised National Meet on Total Voluntary Blood Programme - Vision 2020 from 23-25th January, 2015 at Kolkata. This is one meet which is looked forward to by voluntary organisation from all over the country. Sankalp India Foundation participated in this meet for the first time and was also invited to share speak on the topic of management of rare blood groups.

Rotary Dhanbad embraces Voluntary Blood Donation

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Recently I was invited to talk to Rotarians in Dhanbad who have been trying to shape up their blood donation related activity. It was very difficult for me to plan what I was going to say - after all, I knew that what they had in mind was a virtual blood bank - or in other words - a list of blood donors. I was to talk to a roomful of people who were skeptical about the blood banks and who were sure that the blood bank does not issue blood when needed.

Sundays - the days of hopes

It was around July last year when we decided to put laziness behind and initiate the Sunday get-together for Thalassemia. There was a situation where several parents wanted to meet us and have discussions about various issues faced by their children. We earmarked Sunday as a day for all those meetings with the parents, exploring the strategies to improve the management of the disorder as well as take small steps in direction of the cure.

Guidelines for the Management of Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia, 3rd Edition by TIF is now available

The book of Thalassemia International Federation’s guidelines on the management of transfusion dependant thalassemia is an essential resource for anyone involved in care giving for patients suffering from thalassemia. The latest edition has been released recently and is available for viewing and download from TIF’s website at http://www.thalassaemia.org.cy.

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