The Koraput District Association of Deaf (KDAD), in association with the Koraput District Blood Donors’ & Motivators’ Forum (DBDMF), organised a voluntary blood donation camp here at the premises of the Government Hospital on Sunday.
A total of 30 units of blood were collected by the Odisha Red Cross Blood Bank’s Koraput branch from the camp, which was inaugurated by Koraput Additional District Magistrate Ekadashi Jena.
The ADM also donated blood in the presence of Medical Officer of Sunabeda hospital Dr Roshni Xess and Dr Ruchika Priyadarshini, Blood Bank Officer Dr B Krishna, Deaf Association president Shaik Ibrahim and secretary Chintamani Prusty and President of DBDMF, Koraput G Sanjeev Kumar and organising secretary Dr Uma Sankar Prasad Patra.
KDAD office-bearers and members including Meena Kumari Prusty, Nairanjan Panda, Ranjan Kr Sahu, Sivaram Mandal, Arun Kuldip, Ramesh Khillo and Manju Nayak, along with other benevolent members of the society donated blood in the camp.