68 Donates Blood & 32 Pledge Organs at NGO Divya Upchaar Sansthan's Camp

By Tricitynews Reporter

Chandigarh 07^th January:- Taking forward the agenda to promote the noble cause of organ donation with renewed thrust in the new year, Regional Organ & Tissue Transplant Organization (ROTTO) PGI collaborated with the NGO ‘Divya Upchaar Sansthan (Regd.)’ and organized an awareness camp on Organ Donation alongside the Blood Donation Camp at Baltana today.

Organized to mark the birthday of Shri Maneesh, the Founder of the NGO, the camp witnessed an enthusiastic response with 68 people donating blood and 32 pledging for organ donation braving the winter chill and rain, which could not dampen their voluntary spirit.   

Leveraging the good turn out, Ms Simmi B Sumbria, Transplant Coordinator, ROTTO PGI also addressed over 100 employees of the call centre run by the NGO about the altruistic cause of organ donation. Responding to the queries posed by the participants pertaining to prevalent myths and misconceptions, Simmi Sumbria asserted that the camp provided a good platform to reach out and make the participants aware and sensitize about the cause.     

The Blood Bank team from PGI led by Dr. Anubhav Gupta was all praise for the NGO for their initiative. Dr. Gupta shared that in all over 90 people turned out for blood donation but 68 cases were successful as rest did not meet the pre-determined donor requisite criteria.

Detailing about the intent behind organizing the camp, Jaswinder Singh Jassi  from Divya Upchaar Sansthan (Regd.) shared that the ideology of the NGO is to enable people live a disease free, healthy and happy life with natural ways of cure, meditation and positive outlook. These camps promote the same ideology as nothing can instill a better feeling than being instrumental in saving someone’s life. This is truly unconditional love for humanity at large.

Expressing his happiness at the positive response at the camp, Jaswinder Singh Jassi said that there could not have been a better birthday gift to our Founder than this selfless service. The camp concluded with felicitation of the dignitaries and the donors.