The two-day Jeevan Bindu (blood donation) programme organised by the Eastern India Oil Refinery Workers’ Union here was highly successful with collection of 1,502 units of blood.
While on Sunday 824 units of blood was collected, 678 units were collected in the camp on the concluding day on Monday.
The blood units were collected by doctors of the Red Cross Society, the SCB Medical Collage Hospital and the Jagatsinghpur District Headquarters Hospital.
The blood donation camp was held to mark the birth centenary of late Biju Patnaik in the name of Jeevan Bindu programme under the leadership of Eastern India Oil Refinery Workers’ Union president Santosh Kumar Pattnaik.