Chandigarh:
Thalassemic Charitable Trust organized its 310th blood donation camp on 25.01.25 in collaboration with Department of Transfusion Medicine PGIMER, Chandigarh
to celebrate 76th Republic Day and birthday of Shri Subhash Chandra Bose falling on 23rd January.
The camp was organised for patients of Thalassaemia
in Blood Donation Complex of PGIMER. Thalassemics need life long blood transfusions after 15-20 days to keep optimum level of hemoglobin for survival. 96 units were collected from voluntary blood donors. A group of students from MCM College, Sector 36 Chandigarh visiting the camp were given thalassemia awareness lecture and round of thalassemia ward by Shri Rajinder Kalra. Dr. Viney Sood, Finance Secretary of the Trust celebrated his 25th blood donation in this camp.
Prof(Dr) R R Sharma HoD, Department of Transfusion Medicine PGIMER
and Shri Rajinder Kalra, Member Secretary of the Trust thanked voluntary blood donors and team of Transfusion Medicine, PGIMER for the success of this camp. They emphasised the need for voluntary blood donation to save precious lives needing blood support.
