Red Drops Updates - December

In December, admist of the big Disaster, team Red Drops managed to serve few needy people. The team arranged 17 Blood donors for their 17 request. 10 donors were sent to Egmore Children's Hospital to meet the requirement of a single patient who needed 30 units of blood. 

          Karthick's work was of opine. 

          And again, the Recipient's and Donor's Database was updated for this month.

          Sumatha and Soundarya provided us with much valuable information about blood and the                   matching of blood.

          Here is the infos: 

Albumin:

• The main protein in human blood and the key in regulating the osmotic pressure of blood. 
• Chemically, albumin is soluble in water, precipitated by acid, and coagulated by heat.

The blood that someone is given is 'matched' so that it won’t be destroyed by their immune system.

• Type A Blood Group will match with the Blood Groups who has A or AB Blood Group.
• Type B Blood Group will match with the Blood Groups who has B or AB Blood Group.
• AB Blood Group can only match with a person with AB Blood.
• Blood Group O can be given to anyone, so someone with that blood is called a 'Universal Donor.'
• But a person with type A can only take blood from someone with type A or O Blood Group.
• Type B can only receive blood from someone with B or O Blood Goup.
• AB can receive blood from anyone. This is known as being a 'universal receiver.'
• Type O can only receive blood from someone who is type O.

Red Drops to the Rescue

We usually arrange for 50 to 100 Blood donors per month, after strict filtration and more focus given to people from Government Hospitals.

But the last 4 days were completely different. There were loads and loads of blood requests pouring in, even after the basic filtrations. Despite the unexpected number of requests, we managed to arrange 43 units of blood. And with this blood, we supported

1. 3 kids.
2. 2 pregnant women.
3. 2 accident victims.
4. 3 elderly peoples.

Big Applause and thanks to Team co-ordinator Jagadish, and volunteers  Akshyaa, Divya, Rathi, Ashwin and Satish Bonthu for ramping up their efforts to meet the crisis :-) (y)

Red Drops - Annual Report 2014

In 2013, Red Drops team was handled by Nagappan and he done great works to relaunch the reddrops team with some good effects. In his lead, 88 individual donations and 25 via Blood camp in `State Bank of Travancore`, totalling 103 units...

In 2014, Jagadish took over and managed 249 individual donors and 177 via Blood camp.

Combined Stats:

Total Units: 529
Individual donors: 337
Camps: 202
New donors: 29
Govt hospital: 80 - 85 % contribution.

Thanks to donor, volunteers and supporters . . . . and our team mates... :-)

Blood Camp @ Children's Hospital, Egmore