Actor Ali declares open blood donation camp
Rajamundry: A blood donation camp on massive scale was organised on Sunday at Aditya Educational Institutions under the aegis of respective NSS units. The camp was declared open by film artiste Ali.
TN tops in blood donation with 7.11 lakh units
Chennai: One per cent blood donation of the population is sufficient to meet a country’s basic requirements for safe blood, says WHO. Though India collects nine million units per year, the demand is
Not many game for voluntary blood donation
Thiruvananthapuram: Despite boasting of health indicators comparable to the West and high literacy levels, the track record of the state where voluntary blood donation is concerned, is quite dismal
Blood donations dip this monsoon
Chennai has always been the leader in voluntary blood donation. However, there is a trend that is noticeable in donor patterns, say officials of key blood banks in the city.
“Every monsoon, we see a
Senior cops, techies donate blood
The Cyberabad police conducted a one-day programme at the Commissionerate campus at Gachibowli on Saturday to mark police commemoration day, An exhibition of police arms and equipments, a blood donati
China permits lesbians to donate blood
China has lifted a 14-year-old ban on lesbians from donating blood, while still barring gays, thought of as a high-risk group for AIDS transmission, from doing so.
The Whole Blood and Component Donor
Regular donors to get blood free
The Tamil Nadu health department has decided to create a separate list of regular donors who donate blood every three months and make sure that they are on the privilege list and get blood free of cos
414 donate blood on V-Day
At least 414 people, including prominent citizens and singers, donated blood to show their love towards other human beings on the Valentines day, said to be the largest number of blood donors in the h
Life-saving blood goes down drain in Kerala
Hundreds of units of life-saving blood are rendered waste in many of the blood banks, at a time when the state is grappling with the problem of low rate of voluntary blood donation. The reasons: poor