Health
Red Cross to organise weekly blood donation camps
To overcome blood scarcity, the Red Cross wing of the police has decided to increase the frequency of organizing voluntary blood donation camps to once a week. So far, the twin city police is organising such camps only four or five times in a year. Moreover, the police will bear the treatment costs of 100 poor thalassaemia patients. Commissioner Y B Khurania said, "We will launch a special campaign to make Bhubaneswar a no-blood deficiency zone by mid-2018. We face a shortage of nearly 20,000 units of blood every year.” He emphasized on creating awareness to sensitize people. He opines that the scarcity arises when college students are away as they form bulk of voluntary blood donors. He said, "We need adequate number of donors too. We will reach out to the public to help us generate blood. We will also prepare a list of donors having rare blood groups."
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