The Office of the Accountant General organised a blood donation camp at its premises here on Wednesday. Accountant General (A and E) Reema Prakash inaugurated the camp in the presence of Accountant General R Ambalavanan and Principal Accountant General Devika.
“We should take blood donation as social responsibility,” said Reema Prakash. “Around 100 billion units of blood are necessary for our country, but we are collecting only 50 billion units,” said Capital Hospital Red Cross Blood Bank doctor Dr Debasish Mishra.
Number of Accidents, cancer and Thalassemia patients are increasing day by day and to help them blood donors and youth should come forward, said the guests. S Suryabansi, Choudhru R Raghavan, Birendra Kullariya and 106 other employees donated blood on the occasion.
Madhusudan dalai, Purushottam Bal, Ashok Patnaik, Suchitra Bhatta and Uttam Sahu coordinated the programme.