On Thursday the 27 th of March KRING Technologies India is conducting its 2008 Blood Donation Campaign day.
This year is the first time such a campaign is taking place, but KRING Technologies is planning to make it an annual or even bi-annual event.
The Blood Donation Day has been planned by KRING Technologies in light of the severe shortage of blood donors in India.
In 2008 it has been estimated that for India as a whole, the annual collection of blood is only 5.5-6 million units against the requirement of about 8.5 million units. Another finding has pointed out that if only 3% of India’s eligible population donates their blood, there will be no shortage of blood and its components in blood banks. A significant number of deaths could therefore be avoided if people donate blood regularly and voluntarily, so that safe blood is always available.
The shortage of safe blood particularly impacts children suffering from thalassemia, road traffic accidents and trauma victims, women with complicated pregnancy, cancer patients and those undergoing major surgeries.
By conducting our Blood Donor Day KRING Technologies want to spread awareness about the need for more people to donate blood in India. Therefore
The Blood Donation Campaign is both an awareness campaign where mails are send out regularly with information concerning blood donation, and then it is of course a campaign in more practical terms where the grand finale will be the actual Blood Donation on Thursday the 27th of March where The Indian Red Cross Society will come to Infinity Towers and collect the blood from our many volunteers.
The Blood Donation Campaign is also an initiative greatly supported by KRING Technologies system administrator Sandeep Rathore. Sandeep is a regular blood donor who for the last 6 years has been donating blood every three month.
Sandeep gives the following reasons for donating blood:
“The organization where I donate blood once in every 3 months supplies the collected blood to various hospitals for meeting the excessive demands of children suffering from the ‘Thalassemia’ disease. I feel good to use my body mechanism to fulfill such increasing demands of blood, which no worldly machine has yet been able to fulfill. Our body can reproduce the donated blood in just a few hours and the precious blood, thus, I feel, must be donated regularly. Because, blood is priceless and you can see the value of blood in the eyes of those in need. Apart from this I also feel healthy and fit after donating blood.”
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