Indian Red Cross Society Tamil Nadu Branch National Voluntary Blood Donation Day – 01.10.2009 .

On the occasion of “National Voluntary Blood Donation Day” Indian Red Cross Society, Tamil Nadu Branch would be thanking its donors by felicitating them. This year the Indian Red Cross Society has planned to celebrate in all the District Branches. Blood Donation Camps, community programmes to create awareness on the importance of Voluntary blood donation will be the highlights of the campaign. Voluntary blood donors donate blood of their own free will for altruistic reasons and get no reward except personal satisfaction. Patients who receive this blood feel a sense of being cared for by others whom they will never meet. As “National Blood Programmes move towards the goal of total voluntary donation, there is an increasing appreciation of these donors and their pivotal role in ensuring adequacy of safe blood. It is important that their contribution be recognized and valued by the community.

On 1st October the blood donors, camp organizers and others who support the IRCS Blood bank will be felicitated. The Youth Red Cross Members will be organizing a blood donation camp at Raj Bhavan, Guindy, Chennai-32. From 15 Universities, 10 donors from each University will donate blood on this occasion. Along with this there will be a mass awareness campaign on motivating people to donate blood. This would be done by distributing pamphlets door to door by the Junior Red Cross Members. Motivating people to come forward to donate blood and retaining regular donors is a challenge and could be overcome only by these annual events highlighting the role the blood donors play in saving lives and improving the lives of millions.

The Indian Red Cross has been active in the arena of blood services from 1992. From a humble beginning of a blood donors club the blood bank services has develop into a fullfledged State of Art of Blood Bank. In Chennai IRCS, Blood Bank is operational round the clock and collected nearly 12,000 units a year. The blood bank has only voluntary blood donors and issues blood free of cost to Government Hospitals and charges only Rs.600/- as service charges for others even though the NACO guidelines permit Rs.850/- per unit.

Save-a-Life fund

A Corpus Fund has been created in Indian Red Cross Society, Tamil Nadu Branch where people donate Rs.2,000/- per head in the name of self / spouse or Corporate. This is a one time payment. From out of this donation, the Red Cross Blood bank will provide one unit of blood on a memorable day of the choice of the donor.

The Blood bank at Tamil Nadu State Branch has prepared the road map of increasing the Voluntary donation by targeting the corporate and college students. With the presence of Youth Red cross in all the colleges in the State, it proposes to motivate the youth to come forward and contribute their efforts in saving the life of others. Indian Red Cross Society, Tamil Nadu Branch plans to upgrade and expand its blood transfusion service and to have training facilities of the highest standards, as per National Guidelines. It proposes to establish blood banks in the District Branches and also to start Blood Storage Centres.

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