A two-day mega blood donation camp’s closing ceremony was held on Wednesday at the Eastern India Oil Refinery Workers’ Union office premises here. While the union’s president Santosh Kumar Pattnaik presided over the programme, Deputy Chairman of Odisha State Planning Board Bishnu Charan Das was the chief guest on the occasion. District coordinator of the Chief Minister’s “Jeevan Bindu” programme Madhusudan Sahoo joined as guest. The welcome address was given by union secretary Padma lochan Dash. A Total of 4,006 units of blood were collected in the two days.
The doctors and medical teams from the Red Cross and the SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack, participated in the camp. Chief guest Das praised the effort of the organisers. Union president and eminent trade unionist Santosh Kumar Pattnaik was felicitated by the Odisha Red Cross Society with a memento.
The mega camp was conducted by Padma lochan Das, Anup Patnaik, Chinmay Das, Dillip Kumar Behera and over 200 volunteers.