BISWANATH CHARIALI: An awareness meet and a felicitation programme was held on the occasion of World Blood Donors’ Day at the conference hall of Biswanath Chariali Civil Hospital under the initiative of the Blood Bank of Biswanath Chariali Civil Hospital in association with Biswanath district administration on Thursday. Additional District Commissioner Dhruvajyoti Das, Joint Director of Health Services, Biswanath Dr JN Medoc, Chief Medical Officer Dr JC Be, Superintendent of Biswanath Chariali Civil Hospital Dr Jonali Gogoi, Sub Divisional Medical Officer Dr Eliza Deka, Biswanath Municipality Chairman Amarjyoti Borthakur, representatives from social organisations and media persons were present in the programme.
The speakers highlighted the need and importance of blood donation. They also called upon people to come forward voluntarily to donate blood in the greater interest of the common men. The programme was conducted by Dr Gunjan Pathak, in-charge of the blood blank. A number of blood donors including Additional Superintendent of Police, Biswanath Kulendra Nath Deka, a social group and five other donors were felicitated on the occasion.
Moreover, Udayak Project of Border Roads Organization located at Doomdooma Town organized a blood donation camp on Tuesday on the occasion of its 34th Raising Day and World Blood Donor Day. The camp was inaugurated by Chief Engineer of Udayak Project, Rajiv Sharma. A total of 8 teams participated in the camp represented by Headquarters Udayak Project, National Technical Research Organization, Aeronautical Research Centre, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, 1 Vikas and 48 Border Roads Task Force and 752 Border Roads Task Force under Udayak Project.
Dr Jimmy Pal Karketa and Dr Rajdeep of Blood Bank, Assam Medical College Hospital Dibrugarh along with their paramedical team collected about 67 units of blood for the blood bank. Though about 100 blood donors participated, 67 donors donated blood after been declared fit to donate blood by doctors. Dr. M Sevlaraj of HQ CE (P) Udayak and his Medical Team had organized the blood donation camp with the help of AMCH Dibrugarh which is the care referral hospital for the troops deployed in Assam as well as Arunachal Pradesh.
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