World Blood Donor Day: Health Ministry calls for setting up blood group testing camps at all health centres
"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 the wide and active participation of the population".;
New Delhi: As part of its various activities to promote blood donation and create awareness, the Centre has advised setting up of blood group testing facilities at primary health centres, community health 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 will be useful in emergencies and for the purpose of blood donation.
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All central government ministries, hospitals/institutions and government and private medical colleges have also been advised to organise similar activities 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 the wide and active participation of the population," Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said in the letter to states, UTs and all ministries and departments of the Government of India.
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