BENGALURU: A volunteer group plans to organise a global-level blood donation drive to solve the shortage of blood in blood banks, in not just India, but across different countries.
Come September 17, 2022, the volunteer group - Akhil Bharatiya Terapanth Yuvak Parishad (ABTYP) - plans to organise a Mega Blood Donation Drive (MBDD), spanning over 50 countries. They hope to reach a target of 2 lakh units of blood through the drive.
Amit Dak, president of Terapanth Yuvak Parishad (TYP) Vijayanagar, the city-wing of the national-level group, told TOI that members of the group and community spread across countries like Dubai, Hong Kong, Spain, parts of the USA, the UK, a couple of African and Middle Eastern countries, will join hands to make the drive a success. “ABTYP’s General Secretary Pawan Mandot and ABTYP former President Vimal Kataria called upon Vice President of India, Shri Venkaiah Naidu, regarding the Mega Blood Donation Drive,” said Dak, who is also the MBDD south zone coordinator.
He added that more than 2000 blood donations would be organised just within the country. General Secretary of the organisation, Pawan Mandot said that their organisation started this work on June 5 from five identified areas of the country.
Dak said that the group has chosen September 17 as the day for the global drive to mark the Parishad’s 45th anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday, and the Vishwakarma Jayanthi.
Dak claims that in 2014, the organisation had set a Guinness World record by collecting more than a lakh units of blood.
Vimal Kataria said that along with their 354 branches spread all over the country and Nepal, many other social service organizations in the country are also coming forward to join this campaign. "Appreciating the service of the organization, Hon'ble Vice President Shri Venkaiah Naidu Ji gave his valuable support to this mega blood donation drive to be held on September 17," he said.
The city wing of the Youth group had collected 6314 units of blood in 108 days in March.
Dak says the blood donation drives are aimed to help people and beat the shortage of blood in blood banks. “With the pandemic, we have seen many people still hesitant to donate their blood. The drives will encourage people to come forward to do the good deed, and in turn, help those in need,” he said.
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