The BJD organised a blood donation camp under its ‘Jeevan Bindu’ pogramme here on Friday.
Chief Minister Naveeen Patnaik graced the occasion as chief guest. A total of 406 units of blood were collected from the camp held at the Institute of Engineers under the leadership of Ollywood Actor and BYJD leader Elina Dash.
Similarly, blood donation camps were held at 12 places in the Dharmashal Assembly constituency area under the programme to mark the 2 nd death anniversary of Kalpataru Das. A record number of 3,535 units of blood were collected from these camps. The number surpassed the Jajpur’s day’s record of 3,366 units collected earlier.
A party released claimed that a total of 1,89,195 units of blood have been collected under the Jeevan Bindu prorgramme since its inception in March 2015.