Blood Donation Day

Here are glimpses of the Blood Donation Day. The camp started at 10:15 AM and continued up to 1:30 PM. There were many who donated blood for the first time in their life in this camp. We could capture proud moments of few of them. The doctors and staffs of B C Roy Hospital, IIT Kharagpur helped the Blood Bank team from Sub Division Hospital all possible way. The doctors were very strict on having all qualifying medical parameters met. Thus about ten were unfortunately turned back, that included a senior faculty who arrived before others and had sequence no. 1. On the positive side, we had students who could not qualify last year but was in all smile to be able to become a proud donor this time. We also had mother donating blood with small kid patiently waiting outside. The camp was also a meeting place of old timers. Many ex-NSS students came to camp and we discussed how we are trying to reinvent ourselves. A list of all donors is appended at the end. Our sincere thanks to them to come forward for such a noble cause. This year we had a very good response from larger IIT Kharagpur community as this was the 4th such camp in the campus (previous three held by Maharashtra Mandal, Kalinga Samaj and N.C.C.). The 5th one is to be organized by IIT staff members on May Day.