Shantilata Patra of HAl Township celebrated her 50th birthday in a different way to make it memorable in her life. She organised a voluntary blood donation camp in association with the District Blood Donors’ and Motivators’ Forum, Koraput at Urban rural health centre of Sunabeda where 68 units of blood were collected.
She celebrated her 50th birthday inviting friends and colleagues of her husband and requested them to donate blood to save life. The camp was inaugurated by Chairperson of Sunabeda Municipality Subhasree Mallick in the presence of District Project Manager of District Aids Prevention and Control Unit Rashmi Mohanty and Bharat Mallick.
President of District Blood Donors’ and Motivators’ Forum G Sanjeev Kumar, organising secretary Dr Uma Sankar Prasad Patra, general secretary Dr Sahoo, advisor Chittaranjan Mishra, Koraput District Association of the Deaf president Shaik Ibrahim, Ex-Service men Association president Vijay Kumar Sahu, general secretary Govind Ballava Padhi, Taranga Social Group president Durga Prasad Patra and secretary Bhubaneswar Patnaik participated and assisted Patra for organizing the camp.
Out of 68 donors, there were five women. At the beginning of the camp, a cake was cut and distributed among the donors and well wishers. In the afternoon, soon after the completion of the blood donation
camp, cleaning of burial ground of Sunabeda-1 was undertaken.
Alok Ranjan Samantaray provided cleaning implements and few employees of Sunabeda Municipality also assisted in the cleaning drive.