Sankalp India Foundation

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.

Sankalp India Foundation(R)
Lets Give Life a Better Chance
MottoLets Give Life a Better Chance
Founded23 May 2003
FounderStudents
TypeNon-Government Voluntary Organisation
Location
Area served
India
Websitehttp://www.sankalpindia.net/

Activities

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 .

  • Thal Day Care, Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, Bangalore
  • Project Samraksha, Rashtrotthana Parishat, Bangalore [7][8]
  • Wenlock District Hospital, Mangalore [9]
  • Jai Shivshakti Center For Thalassemia, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum
  • Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Centre, Nagpur
  • Radha Mohan Mehrotra Global Hospital Trauma Center, Abu Road
  • Indian Red Cross Society, Nellore
  • Indian Red Cross Society, Rajkot
  • Sarvoday Samarpan, Mumbai
  • Shree Jalaram Abhuday Sadbhavana Trust, Ahmedabad
  • Indian Red Cross Society, Eluru
  • Mamata Foundation, Vijayawada
  • Day care centre at RDT Hospital, Ananthapur is also part of the network.

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 is expected to start in March 2018.[13] The organisation has done more than 200 transplants for patients with thalassemia until May 2019 [14]

Achievements

References
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  2. "An appeal to donate blood". The Hindu. 7 July 2009.
  3. "State-wide helpline for blood launched". The Hindu. 17 August 2009.
  4. Rao R, Sunitha (7 March 2003). "Istanbul man finds blood donor in Bangalore". The Times of India.
  5. Agarwal, RK; Dhanya, R; Parmar, LG; Vaish, A; Sedai, A; Periyavan, S (1 January 2015). "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. doi:10.4103/0973-6247.150942. PMC 4339926. PMID 25722568.
  6. Agarwal, RK; Periyavan, S; Dhanya, R; Parmar, LG; Sedai, A; Ankita, K; Vaish, A; Sharma, R; Gowda, P (1 February 2016). "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. doi:10.4103/0973-6247.165840. PMC 4782495. PMID 27011671.
  7. "Thalassemia day care centre opened". The New Indian Express. 25 August 2013.
  8. "Thalassemia: The growing challenge". Deccan Chronicle. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
  9. "Thalassaemia day-care centre to open today". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  10. "People remember Tsunami victims". The Times of India. 26 December 2010.
  11. Sourav Roy. "Water, Water, Everywhere". the-nri.com.
  12. "Hope for Bengaluru kids with thalassemia". The Times of India. 28 August 2015.
  13. "MY Hospital eyes high rate of success in BMT". The Times of India. 17 November 2017.
  14. "Techies' team helps 107 patients undergo marrow transplants". Times of India. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
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