As a part of its varied actions to advertise blood donation and create consciousness, the Centre has suggested establishing of blood group testing amenities at main well being centres, neighborhood well being centres and district hospitals on World Blood Donor Day on June 14.
The Union Health Ministry has written to all states and union territories, saying such an initiative can be helpful in emergencies and for the aim of blood donation.
All central authorities ministries, hospitals/establishments and authorities and personal medical schools have additionally been suggested to organise comparable actions on June 14.
“To ensure that everyone who needs transfusion has access to safe blood, the country needs voluntary, unpaid blood donors who donate blood regularly. An effective blood donor programme requires wide and active participation of the population,” Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan mentioned within the letter to states, UTs and all ministries and departments of the Government of India.
The marketing campaign slogan for this 12 months’s World Blood Donor Day is ‘donating blood is an act of solidarity’.
The ministry has steered an motion plan to the states and UTs to be applied with an purpose to maximise registration of keen blood donors together with optimum blood assortment and unfold consciousness amongst rural plenty by means of felicitation of blood donors and organising pledge taking ceremony at gram panchayat degree. The pledge could be administered by the respective sarpanch.
Similar actions could also be organised on the block and district ranges.
A pledge in English or Hindi or regional language for blood donation can be administered by means of each bodily occasions in any respect ranges and digital platforms. The ministry has requested states and UTs to get the template of the pledge translated into regional languages for wider dissemination.
“To promote registration of blood donors and create awareness, facility for blood group testing may be made available on 14th June, 2022 at all PHCS/CHCs/Sub-district and District hospitals and other blood banks as per feasibility. This will help the common citizens to know their blood group which will be useful in emergencies for the purpose of blood donation,” the letter acknowledged.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”