CII Organizes Blood Donation Camp: Collects 50 Blood Units

By 121 News Reporter

Chandigarh 16^th January: -- Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Northern Region in association with Indian Society of Blood Transfusion & Immunohaematology (ISBTI) organized a blood donation camp as part of National Volunteering Week at the CII Headquarters here today. The camp, which was organised as part of CII's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative saw participation of a lot of enthusiastic CII employees, CII members and volunteers from the tricity industry and institutes who all came forward to donate blood and save precious lives.  A team of doctors headed by Dr Ravneet Kaur from the Department of Transfusion Medicine of Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh carried out the blood collection. The camp concluded with a collection of 50 Units of blood.

Dr Ravneet Kaur, Head of Department of Transfusion Medicine of Government Medical College and Hospital, shared that the Blood donation is a unique collaboration of modern medical science and humanity. Anybody can face the emergency and need blood urgently. Hence, blood donation is the most important opportunity for saving someone's life.

Pikender Pal Singh, Regional Director, CII NR shared that the CII believes that it is the moral responsibility of all healthy people to donate blood regularly so that our blood banks have sufficient units available in case of emergencies. Blood donation is the highest donation as there is no other source of blood except from donations, so CII has made Blood Donation camps a regular feature in its calendar of activities.