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Minister for Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare Satya Kumar Yadav urged younker to actively enactment successful humor donation camps, to bring anticipation to radical suffering from assorted ailments.
Participating successful a 5k marathon successful Vijayawada connected Sunday, successful transportation with the commencement day celebrations of Swami Vivekananda, the Minister said though the fig of humor donors successful the State has been expanding each year, the request remains high.
Every twelvemonth connected January 12, connected the juncture of National Youth Day, humor donation programmes are organised. Nearly 40 humor donation camps volition beryllium organised crossed the State astatine this time, helium said successful a connection released connected Sunday. Underscoring the value of humor donation, the Minister said 1 portion of humor tin prevention 3 lives.
State AIDS Control Society Project Director Neelakantha Reddy briefed the Minister connected humor postulation and related details successful the State. During the 2024-25 fiscal year, 5.34 lakh units of humor were collected, of which 88.6 per cent came from those who donated voluntarily.
According to the property note, successful 2025, till December, 7.03 lakh units were collected, with 88.55 per cent donating the humor voluntarily.
Blood is being collected done 394 institutions, including authorities ones, the Red Cross Society, charitable organisations. Of the humor collected up to the extremity of past period successful 2025-26, 94,262 units were provided to mothers and infants, 73,048 units to crab patients, 54,581 units to roadworthy mishap victims, 19,161 units to sickle compartment patients, 17,274 units to thalassemia patients, and the remaining were distributed escaped of complaint to different needy patients, Mr. Neelakantha Reddy said to the Minister.
He said that humor was required successful ample quantities for surgeries, trauma cases, crab patients, and for those suffering from chronic diseases specified arsenic thalassemia and kidney ailments.
