“My abiding spirit of serving the society with the best of my capacity, keeping aside my hardship of being a differently abled person, enables me to take part in voluntary blood donation since my 18 year of age.”
This was stated by Khundrakpam Premjit, in a chat with the IFP, who had lost his vision when he was just 10 years old, but spirited enough to donate blood 58 times.
A trustee of Life Saver Manipur, Premjit, 37, son of Kh. Binoy and Kh (o) Radhe, of Lamdeng Makha Leikai Imphal, recalled that for the first time he donated blood in 1999 and during that time he doesn’t know anything about the advantages of blood donation except saving someone’s life.
But later he came to know that donation of blood regularly gives lots of health benefit to donors such as it controls heart disease, controls cholesterol level, removes excess iron and so on.
Recalling the circumstances that made him to become a regular blood donor, he said, “A report in one of local dailies about insufficiency of blood at RIMS pinched my heart thinking about the problems the people in need of blood must have faced.”
He continued, “From that day onwards there was no turning back. I along with my other eight friends who all are physically challenged like me started donating blood and took out campaign in various part of the state as well.”
While appealing people of the state who are physically fit to donate blood, he said that through this noble deed we can save many lives and it is the easiest way to give joy to people who are in distress.
Head of department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion Medicine RIMS, A. Barinder Sharma said that despite increase in the number of voluntary blood donors in the state, the demand are unable to meet. So far only 40 percent of demand is being supplied from blood bank, he pointed out.
He further said that the only means to meet the demand of blood is to increase the number of voluntary blood donors as the blood donated from them is free from risks.
When asked about the step taken up my RIMS to increase the number of voluntary blood donor, he said creating mass awareness about the importance of blood donation is the only means to increase the voluntary blood donor and the institute is doing very well in this aspect.
He informed that during April 2015- March 2016, the institute had conducted 35 camps in associations with various organisations and received 4779 units including family donor of the ailing patient, from April 2016- March 2017, 42 camps were held and received 5456 units of blood including family donor of the ailing patient.
Again during April 2017- March 2018, the total number of blood collected from 52 voluntary blood donation campaign organised by institute in collaboration with various associations was 3178 unit (this unit doesn’t not include family donor). For the period of April 2018- March 2019, 43 campaigns has already completed and collected 1115 unit blood excluding family donor, he added.
He expressed that this clearly shows that the objective of conducting campaign is being fulfilled to some extend but we could not achieved the target of 100 percent supply of blood from blood bank. Therefore we have to focus more in spreading awareness about necessity of blood donation, he added.
Due to lack of proper transportation and technical problem, blood donation campaign could not be reached to far flung areas of hilly districts, he lamented.
Appealing people of the state to extend helping hand to people who are in dire need of blood, he said that there is no substitute for human blood.
Further he maintained that blood cannot be manufactured in any laboratory. Regular blood donation by a large section of society is insurance for all, he added.
Source Imphal Free Press
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