Thalassaemic Charitable Trust organised its 296th Blood Donation Camp at Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) Office, Sector 6, Panchkula on 5th April 2024 in coordination with Deptt. of Transfusion Medicine PGIMER with the cooperation of HSVP Drivers Welfare Association Panchkula.

Thalassaemic patients needs regular blood transfusions after 15-20 days and the requirement of blood has been increasing day-by-day, as our thalassaemics are grown up now and requires more quantity of blood. Hon’ble 67 voluntary blood donors registered for blood donation, in which 14 blood donors did not donated blood due to various reasons.

The camp was successfully ended under the guidance of Prof(Dr.) Ratti Ram Sharma-HOD, Deptt. of Transfusion Medicine PGI and their respective team. Sh. Rajinder Kalra, Member Secretary of the Trust emphasised the need for voluntary blood donation to save precious lives needing blood support.

On behalf of the Thalassaemic Charitable Trust, he thanked all blood donors and the team of Department of Transfusion Medicine, PGIMER Chandigarh for this camp. Next blood donation camp will be held on 20th April 2024 at Patel Market, Sector 15 Chandigarh.