DK, Red Cross, IRCS to launch helpline on June 14

DK, Red Cross, IRCS to launch helpline on June 14

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, June 11, 2016: DK,  Dakshina Kannada unit of the IRCS, Indian Red Cross Society is to be observed World Blood Donor Day at RAPCC, Regional Advanced Paediatric Care Centre  at Wenlock Hospital Mangaluru at 4 pm here on June 14.

Addressing media and releasing a press note on June 10, Friday, IRCS District Blood Bank Committee Secretary Dr Sushil Jathanna said,  helpline of the IRCS Blood Bank will be launched on the occasion. The helpline 08242-424788,  would provide information on the availability of blood in other blood banks in the hospitals of Mangaluru and surrounding areas. The helpline would be active from June 14, he added.

IRCS District Chairman Shantaram Shetty said Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer P I Srividya would be the chief guest. As a part of the World Blood Donor Day programme, a blood donation camp would be organised on the premises of Lady Goschen Hospital from 9 am to 12.30 pm, he added.

He said that five blood donors, who have donated highest units of blood, would be felicitated on the occasion. Also, the persons, who have helped the IRCS in organising blood donation camps, would be felicitated. Dr Jathanna said one unit of blood could save three lives and a healthy person could donate one unit of blood once in three months. He requested the people to donate blood. The blood would be checked for infections before transfusion, he added.  IRCS Disaster Management Committee Chairman Venu Sharma was present.