Sankalp India Foundation Explained

Sankalp India Foundation(R)
Type:Non-Government Voluntary Organisation
Founded Date:23 May 2003
Founder:Students
Location:Bangalore
Area Served:India
Website:http://www.sankalpindia.net/

Sankalp India Foundations is a Bangalore-based non-government organisation.[1] It is a youth organisation working for blood donation, thalassemia, bone marrow transplantation and disaster relief.

Voluntary Blood Donation

Since 2003,[2] it has been working for voluntary blood donation in Karnataka. A blood helpline is run by the organisation.[3] It also organizes several blood donation camps. It is one of the pioneer organisations which helps patients worldwide with a rare blood group "Bombay Blood Group" (also known as hh blood group).[4]

Sankalp India Foundation has done extensive work in the areas of quality and safety of blood donation camps, studying the extent of non-compliance[5] and adverse donor events[6] blood banks in voluntary blood donation camps.

Thalassemia Management

Sankalp India Foundation runs several day care centers across South and West India for patients suffering from Thalassemia and related blood disorders .

Thalassemia Prevention

The StopThalassemia campaign is an initiative of Sankalp India Foundation to strengthen Thalassemia prevention by focusing on antenatal screening. The campaign provides screening services to pregnant women and their husbands in the first trimester of their pregnancy. The following maternity centres are part of the StopThalassemia Campaign:

Disaster relief

Sankalp also participates in disaster relief activities. A few of the disasters in which it participated for relief are the Tsunami on the Indian sub continent,[10] Karnataka floods, Sikkim earthquake, J&K earthquake, and the Assam floods.[11]

Bone Marrow Transplant

Sankalp India Foundation has been offering bone marrow transplantation for patients suffering from thalassemia. The organisation started the first bone marrow transplantation center In collaboration with People Tree Hospitals and Cure2Children Foundation, Italy in Bangalore in August 2015.[12] In May 2017, the organisation has started a new bone marrow transplantation center in collaboration with Care Institute of Medical Science, Ahmedabad.In November 2017 Sankalp got into an understanding with MY Hospital, Indore for the new Bone Marrow Transplantation Program which started in March 2018.[13] a new centre was started in Bangalore in June 2021 at Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, Bangalore. The organisation has done more than 500 transplants for patients with thalassemia until December 2022.

Achievements

Notes and References

  1. News: NGO connect: 'Bombay Blood' flown to Istanbul. Deccan Chronicle. bot: unknown. https://archive.today/20131028133050/http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130305/news-current-affairs/article/ngo-connect-%E2%80%98bombay-blood%E2%80%99-flown-istanbul. 2013-10-28.
  2. News: An appeal to donate blood. The Hindu. 7 July 2009.
  3. News: State-wide helpline for blood launched. 17 August 2009. The Hindu.
  4. News: Istanbul man finds blood donor in Bangalore. https://web.archive.org/web/20131029212354/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-07/bangalore/37531009_1_bombay-blood-group-rare-blood-blood-bank. live. 29 October 2013. 7 March 2003. Sunitha. The Times of India. Rao R.
  5. Agarwal . RK . Dhanya . R . Parmar . LG . Vaish . A . Sedai . A . Periyavan . S . A study of the noncompliance of blood banks on safety and quality parameters in blood donation camps in Bengaluru . Asian Journal of Transfusion Science . 9 . 1 . 23–8 . 25722568 . 1 January 2015 . 10.4103/0973-6247.150942 . 4339926 . free .
  6. Agarwal . RK . Periyavan . S . Dhanya . R . Parmar . LG . Sedai . A . Ankita . K . Vaish . A . Sharma . R . Gowda . P . Complications related to blood donation: A multicenter study of the prevalence and influencing factors in voluntary blood donation camps in Karnataka, India . Asian Journal of Transfusion Science . 10 . 1 . 53–8 . 27011671 . 1 February 2016 . 10.4103/0973-6247.165840 . 4782495 . free .
  7. News: Thalassemia day care centre opened. https://web.archive.org/web/20131029211402/http://newindianexpress.com/cities/bangalore/Thalassemia-day-care-centre-opened/2013/08/25/article1750838.ece. dead. 29 October 2013. 25 August 2013. The New Indian Express.
  8. News: Thalassemia: The growing challenge. Deccan Chronicle. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131029204326/http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130903/news-current-affairs/article/thalassemia%E2%80%88-growing-challenge. 2013-10-29.
  9. News: Thalassaemia day-care centre to open today. 2 September 2017. The Hindu.
  10. News: People remember Tsunami victims. https://web.archive.org/web/20131029212241/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-26/bangalore/28221815_1_tsunami-victims-christmas-cheer-volunteers. dead. 29 October 2013. The Times of India. 26 December 2010.
  11. Web site: Water, Water, Everywhere. Sourav Roy. the-nri.com.
  12. News: Hope for Bengaluru kids with thalassemia. The Times of India. 28 August 2015.
  13. News: MY Hospital eyes high rate of success in BMT. The Times of India. 17 November 2017.
  14. Web site: AmeriCares Spirit of Humanity Awards 2011 Winners. www.americaresindia.org. 30 October 2013. 1 November 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131101064602/http://www.americaresindia.org/spirit-of-humanity-awards/soh-win2011.html. dead.
  15. Web site: AmeriCares Spirit of Humanity Awards 2011 Winners. www.americaresindia.org.
  16. Web site: Manthan Awards Asia Pacific 2013 Winner. manthanaward.org. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141201232946/http://manthanaward.org/section_full_story.asp?id=1332. 2014-12-01.
  17. Web site: eNgo Challenge 2014 South Asia Winners 2014. engochallenge.org.
  18. Web site: AmeriCares Spirit of Humanity Awards 2016 Winners. www.pharmabiz.com.

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