CII organizes Blood Donation Camp:Collects 60 Units

By 121 News Reporter

Chandigarh 28^th January:- Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Northern Region in association with Indian Society of Blood Transfusion & Immunohaematology organized a blood donation camp at the CII NR Headquarters in Sector 31 A 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, employees of CII member companies, staff of organisations like Food Corporation of India (FCI), Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, Bank of India (BoI), Ministry of Environment, Forest & climate Change, Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) and volunteers from the tricity, industry and institutes. A team of doctors headed by Dr Ravneet Kaur Bedi 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 60 Units of blood.

Dr Ravneet Kaur Bedi, Head of Department of Transfusion Medicine of Government Medical College and Hospital, shared that 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 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.

Dr Harsh Mitter, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Central), Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, GoI while donating blood commended the CII staffs' positive response to the camp, citing the high turnout at the donation center in a bid to meet the increasing demand on donated blood, especially rare types, by public and private hospitals and thus help save lives