Mega Blood Donation Camp Held at KIIT Under Art of Giving Initiative 3,000 units of blood collected in a single day
Bhubaneswar, January 11: A Mega blood donation camp was organized by KIIT & KISS on Saturday, and a record 3,000 units of blood donations were made.
As one of the initiatives of the Art of Giving, this blood donation camp was inaugurated by Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder, KIIT and KISS. Inaugurating the blood donation camp,
Dr. Samanta said KIIT & KISS has a target of collecting 60,000 units of blood annually. For this, KIIT and KISS will organize such kind of mega blood donation camps in 30 districts of Odisha throughout the year, and the collected blood will be supplied to various blood banks in the state. KIIT and KISS alone will donate 6,000 units of blood.
The program was attended by Prof Saranjit Singh, VC, KIIT Deemed to be University; Dr. CBK Mohanty, Pro-VC; Registrar Prof. Gyan Ranjan Mohanty; Joint Registrar Dr. Shyam Sundar Beura; Prof. R. C. Das, Principal KIMS; and Dilip Panda, Group Director KIMS along with many senior officials of KIIT and KIMS. In this blood donation camp, teams from KIMS, SCB Medical College Hospital Blood Bank, Capital Hospital Blood Bank, Central Red Cross Blood Bank in Cuttack, BMC Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Indian Red Cross Society Odisha State Branch, Bhubaneswar, District Head Hospitals of Dhenkanal, Puri, Khurda and Jajpur collected blood from the camp.
