On 7th December 2019, a blood donation camp was held at our Container Freight Station (CFS) in Mundra under the able guidance and support of Dr. Darshan Kumar and Dr. Palak Lakhani from the G. K. General Hospital, Bhuj, India.
With the elongated monsoon this year, the entire state of Gujarat saw a lot of people getting affected with the dreaded dengue fever that took on almost epidemic proportions.
A large number of people, including many of our colleagues at the Mundra CFS and their family members were down with dengue this year. As the hospitals struggled and refused to admit dengue patients, their platelet counts kept falling. Almost everyone in Mundra became familiar with terms like Complete Blood Count (CBC) and particularly, platelet count, Red Blood Cells (RBC) and White Blood Cells (WBC).
In such a situation, when a doctor came for a blood donation awareness camp, there was enthusiastic participation from all. A number of donors turned up to support the noble cause – donate blood to save life.
The response was so overwhelming that in just a few hours the targeted units of blood were collected and more than 70 prospective donors actually had to be sent back without collecting their blood!
Kudos to our team at the Mundra CFS for this thoughtful initiative and a big thank you to everyone who came forward to donate blood! Every step matters and every single drop counts, after all!
