The Indian Red Cross Society Odisha State Branch observed the World Red Cross Day here on Saturday on the theme ‘Unstoppable’.
A two-day programme was launched under the guidance of Indian Red Cross State Branch Honorary Secretary CTM Suguna. On the first day, a webinar on Red Cross activities was held being participated by Youth Red Cross (YRC) district coordinators, JRCOs, convenor secretaries and JRC district secretaries of all districts.
The webinar discussed, among other things, on blood donation, mask and soap distribution, awareness on social distancing, hand hygiene and use of mask, vaccination centre management, dead body management rendered by Red Cross volunteers all over the State. Red Cross counsellors from different districts shared their experiences of working during this Covid pandemic.
Suguna appealed to all members to focus on organising blood donation camps with Covid guidelines to solve the blood scarcity during the pandemic and to work for psychological care to the corona positive patients to keep them stress-free, providing grocery, vegetables and other essential items if someone is in emergency, to provide services to the migrant labourers stranded at the borders, crowd management and social distancing awareness at vaccination centres.A blood donation camp was also organised on the occasion where 23 people donated blood.