STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The Assam State AIDS Control Society (ASACS) and Assam State Blood Transfusion Council (ASBTC) organized Voluntary Blood Donation Camp on the premises of the Office of the Commissioner of Taxes (Kar Bhavan), at Ganeshguri on Saturday. The camp was inaugurated by Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Pijush Hazarika. Talking to the reporters after the inauguration of the camp, the Minister said, "Due to the lockdown there is a decline in voluntary blood donation in the State. In order to accelerate voluntary blood donation, this noble step has been taken by Assam State Blood Transfusion Council and I am thankful to Director of ASBTC & Commissioner of Taxes Anurag Goel for taking up this initiative and also to the officials and Staff of Commissionerate Office for coming forward to donate blood which will be extremely helpful to the needy patients in the hospitals." The Minister further said that such drives will continue throughout the state as 5 Mobile Blood Collection Vans are already placed at District Hospitals across the state and another 5 Mobile Blood Collection Vans will soon be placed at various districts.
Altogether 55 donors were screened at the camp and out of them 35 donors donated blood in the Blood Mobile Bus stationed near the office.