I N a noble attempt to serve the underpriveleged sections of soci ety and meet the demand for blood in the city Mahatma Gandhi Seva Mandir – a 51year-old charitable trust based in the western suburb of Bandra- has recently inaugurated an ultra modern blood bank. This trust was established in 1947 with the purpose of providing medical facilities to the down trodden .
Currently, around 150 blood banks in Mumbai accumulate blood throughout the year by organising blood donation camps across the city at regular intervals, as the yearly requirement for blood in various hospitals and private clinics in Mumbai itself is estimated to be around 2,50,000 bottles (about 8,75,000 litres).
Dr Abhijit Bopardikar, pathologist, Mahatma Gandhi Seva Mandir blood bank said, "On May 8, 2008, we initiated a Thalassemia foundation which has pledged to adopt 40 Thalassemic major children belonging to the deprived sections of society. We would provide them blood at no cost throughout their life as Thalassemic patients gener ally require regular and repeated blood transfusions, as frequent as twice a month.""We plan to increase the number of Thalassemic adoptions in future and also extend our free services to Leukemia patients and to people with various haematological disorders warranting frequent and consistent blood transfusions to survive," he added.
I N a noble attempt to serve the underpriv- eleged sections of soci- ety and meet the demand for blood in the city Mahatma Gandhi Seva Mandir – a 51- year-old charitable trust based in the western suburb of Bandra- has recently in- augurated an ultra modern blood bank. This trust was established in 1947 with the purpose of providing med- ical facilities to the down- trodden . Currently, around 150 blood banks in Mumbai ac- cumulate blood throughout the year by organising blood donation camps across the city at regular intervals, as the yearly requirement for blood in various hospitals and private clinics in Mum- bai itself is estimated to be around 2,50,000 bottles (about 8,75,000 litres). Dr Abhijit Bopardikar, pathologist, Mahatma Gandhi Seva Mandir blood bank said, "On May 8, 2008, we initiated a Thalassemia foundation which has pledged to adopt 40 Tha- lassemic major children be- longing to the deprived sec- tions of society. We would provide them blood at no cost throughout their life as Thalassemic patients gener- ally require regular and re- peated blood transfusions, as frequent as twice a month.""We plan to in- crease the number of Tha- lassemic adoptions in future and also extend our free ser- vices to Leukemia patients and to people with various haematological disorders warranting frequent and consistent blood transfu- sions to survive," he added.
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