The Health department officials announced that they will identify villages and colleges in each of the state’s 13 districts, where every eligible member would be encouraged to donate blood.
The aim is to get at least one village and one college ready for blood donation at any given point of time. Villages and colleges will be identified in every district for the project and all the eligible persons will be encouraged to register themselves for donation. Once a college or a village has 100% registration of eligible persons, it will get the tag of being a ‘blood donor’ village or college. It will be a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country.
Uttarakhand collected 8,171 units of blood from September 17 to October 1, 2022 in a statewide blood donation campaign, as per health officials. In the e-raktkosh portal, Uttarakhand has 81,188 volunteers registered for blood donation.