Monday 19 December 2016

BLOOD DONATION DRIVE

    BLOOD DONATION DRIVE AND THALASSEMIA SCREENING

    • Date: 27th September, 2016
    • Venue: Assembly Hall, St. Francis Insititute of Technology Campus, Borivali (W)
    • Organized by: SFIT NSS Unit, SFIT SRC and Galvanie
    • Objectives:
      1. To encourage students of SFIT to donate blood and spreading awareness regarding it as it is the need of the time
      2. To aware students about thalassemia
    The blood donation was organized by NSS and SRC SFIT in collaboration with Bhagwati Municipal General HospitalBorivali, Mumbai and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General HospitalSion, Mumbai. The blood donation preparations started at 8 a.m. as soon as volunteers gathered. The hospital staff arrived at 9.15 a.m. with the required equipment. A Tulsi plant was offered as a symbol to the head representatives of respective hospital. The blood donation started at 10.15 a.m. and went on till 4.30 p.m. The Thalassemia Screening was started along with blood donation. It was conducted in collaboration with "Think Foundation". A total of 398 students went on for the Screening.
    Total Number of Blood donors: 288
    Number of students participated in Thalassemia Screening: 398
    As we can see there was an overwhelming response from the students.

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