Blood Donation Camp - 2018

On 22nd April 2018, Shri Aniruddha Upasana Foundation along with its affiliated organisations simultaneously conducted blood donation camps at 39 locations in Maharashtra. Overall 8770 blood packs were collected. This includes 5838 packs from Mumbai and 2932 from the rest of Maharashtra.

Apart from Mumbai, the camps were conducted in other districts such as Pune, Kolhapur, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Akola, Jalgaon, Sindhudurg and Palghar. The camp was organized at 17 locations in Pune which yielded 1640 packs and in Kolhapur it yielded 424 packs. In the Palghar district, 127 packs were collected in Boisar, 131 in Palghar and 83 in Dongaste. The numbers from other places were, Uran – 121, Akola – 16, Miraj – 82, Waghotan – 28, Sangamner – 72, Chopda – 11 and Dahanu Road – 89.
 

In Bandra, 40 blood banks participated, which included the K.E.M. Hospital, Nair Hospital Blood Bank, Saifi Hospital, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, J.J. Mahanagar Raktapedhi, Babasaheb Ambedkar Municipal Hospital, Sion Hospital, Rajawadi Hospital, Ayush Blood Bank (Nagpur), Blood Line (Thane), Wadia Hospital, D.Y. Patil Hospital, Bombay Hospital, Masina Hospital, Tata Hospital and others.
 

The blood donation camp is not just an annual event, as every Upasana Centre organises a camp every six months. These camps receive a good response as well.
 

The importance of the blood donation camp is enormous, considering the shortage of blood units faced by the country. Hence, we must participate in these camps and donate blood.