Guntur Red Cross tops in blood donation camps in the country: Red Cross chairman Sridhar Reddy

GUNTUR: Showering praises on the Guntur unit of

Red Cross

, AP chapter chairman

Dr Arumalla Sridhar

Reddy has said that the Guntur branch stood in the first place in organizing

blood donation camps

in the country. He said that the Guntur unit team had displayed exemplary leadership during the covid-19 outbreak and become a big inspiration for all other branches in the state. Dr Sridhar Reddy along with Rotary International chairman

Vadlamani Ravi

handed over an ultra-modern mobile blood collection vehicle to Guntur unit executives here on Thursday.

Addressing the gathering, Dr Sridhar Reddy said that the Guntur branch had organized the highest number of blood donation camps in the country during the last year and it is continuing its tremendous work during the current year.

Guntur chapter vice-president and mission director P Ramachandra Raju said that they could organize so many camps thanks to the dedicated volunteers and enthusiastic youngsters in the colleges in the district. He said that the existing blood bank of the Red Cross is not operating in its full capacity as there is a need to increase its Blood Donor Base.

Since many blood donors are not willing to spend time to come to the centre and donate blood, mobile blood collection van will help them pool required blood, said Raju. He explained that the blood bank is providing free of cost blood to various charitable hospitals and organisations. “At present the population of Guntur is approx six million from which three million will be from the age group 18 to 50, making it a large group of donors available for blood donation,” said Raju.

Rotary international chairman Vadlamani Ravi said that the mobile blood collection van would help the Guntur team to organize more camps in the coming days. He said that the van was equipped with all required tools to collect blood from the donors. Rotary district governor NV Hanumantha Reddy, K Prabhakar, Rajasekhar Reddy, Ranganath Bhat, Ravindra Bhat were also present.