Considering the need for blood for transfusion in view of the seriousness of dengue and chickungunia in the State, the Utttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay has written to office bearers of all the district and city-level committees, ancillary organizations, the heads of various departments and cells of the party exhorting them to hold blood donation camps with assistance of local hospitals and clinics in their respective districts.
In the communication sent to the office bearers, the PCC chief — who was recently diagnosed as suffering from dengue — said that with the spread of dengue and chikungunia in the State had created conditions wherein there was a considerable rise in the requirement of blood for transfusion. The Congress office-bearers and heads of its various cells and departments have been directed to organise voluntary blood donation camp in their respective district headquarters on any one day from October 22, 23, 25 and 27.
PCC chief spokesman Mathura Datt Joshi daid that acting on the directions of the PCC president, blood donation camp will be organised on October 22 by Dehradun Mahanagar Congress Committee, the Panchayat department of the PCC, its minority department, IT department and Scheduled Caste department. On October 25, the Cabinet Ministers, party’s councilors in the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun, Congress MlAs and Mahila Congress will organise a blood donation camp which will be followed by the third blood donation camp on October 27 under the aegis of the Youth Congress and National Students Union of Indian (NSUI).
Joshi further said that in Dehradun, the Doon Hospital, Mahant Indiresh hospital and Dr Geeta Khanna will be cooperating in the organization of the voluntary blood donation camps in the state’s provisional capital.
On the occasion of the monthly meeting of the PCC slated to be held on October 24, the state office bearers will organise a blood donation camp at Dhruvpur in Kotdwar on the same day.