The National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, observed the ‘World Blood Donors Day’ under the aegis of the National Blood Transfusion Council (NBTC) at Connaught Place today.
The ‘ World Blood Donors Day’ celebrates their altruistic gift and thanks the unsung heroes for their priceless contribution.
The theme for this year’s campaign was ‘Thank you for saving my life’ and focused on thanking blood donors who save lives every day through their blood donations.
It also encouraged more people across the world to donate blood voluntarily through their slogan ‘Give freely, give often. Blood donation matters’.
NACO Joint Secretary K. B. Agarwal launched the blood donation drive on the occasion.
He also launched the Database of blood banks on the national health portal.
The National Blood Transfusion Council has made available a directory of all 2760 licensed blood banks on the national health portal.
After launching the Mobile Blood Bank Locator App to promote easy access of information regarding the nearest blood bank, Agarwal felicitated the contributors of the technology for the promotion of Voluntary Blood Donation.
This included National Health Portal, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY), National Informatics Centre (NIC), Friends2support.org, Blood Connect, Indianblooddonors.com, Think Foundation, Blood On Call, Blood For All and Blood For Life.
To promote Voluntary Blood donation, a national short film contest was also declared.
It is being organised by the National Book Trust in collaboration with friends 2 support.org.
The last date for submission of the entries would be August 31. (ANI)