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Call to make blood donation a mass movement

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recognition: R. Karpagakumaravel, left, Vice-Chancellor, Madurai Kamaraj University, honouring one of the organisers of blood donation camp in the city.

MADURAI: Blood donation should become a mass movement and it needs a network of students, workers, employees, professionals and people from every walk of life, said R.Karpaga Kumaravel, Vice Chancellor, Madurai Kamaraj University.

He was addressing a function organised here on Thursday by Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre(MMHRC), Regional Blood Transfusion Centre, Indian Medical Association and Indian Red Cross Society to felicitate blood donors, donor institutions and take the message of donating blood to save precious lives.

Film Director R.V.Udhayakumar said that it was the students, who were at the forefront of blood donation campaign, and opined that universities could consider provision of marks to donor-students. He also asked the film fraternity, especially lyricists and filmmakers, to stress the need to donate blood in their works.

“A lot of myths that revolve around donation of blood need to be debunked because donation helps the body by purifying the blood and replace them with new red blood cells and the body replenishes the fluid lost during donation in 24 hours,” said C. Periyathai, Joint Director of Collegiate Education.

P. Krishnammoorthi, haematologist, said that the country needed 90 lakh units of blood but only the halfway mark had been reached.

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