175 units of blood collected during camp at EMC hospital

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 14

Youth for Global Peace and Tansformation organised a blood donation camp at EMC Hospital, situated in posh Green Avenue locality here on Monday. As many as 175 units of blood were collected during the camp.

Half of the collected blood went to Guru Nanak Dev Blood Bank and another half went to EMC Blood Bank.

Former cabinet minister Anil Joshi, ADC Himanshu Aggarwal, DCP PS Bhandal, DCP Mukhwinder Singh and Dilraj Sarkaria. DCP Mukhwinder also donated blood.

Youth for Global Peace and Transformation had received a request letter from Guru Nanak Dev Blood Bank to organise a blood donation camp amid the Covid pandemic lockdown. The letter stated that Guru Nanak Dev Blood Bank does not have enough blood units to fulfil the daily needs of the patients admitted in the hospital. Even patients suffering from thalassaemia were facing shortage. Volunteers present were Sukhamrit Singh, Anoop Mahajan, Hargun Sachdeva, Prateek Verma, Dhruv Goswami, Satyam, Sakshi and others.