Sankalp India Foundation
 Lets Give Life a Better Chance | |
| Founded | 23 May 2003 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Students |
| Type | Non-Government Voluntary Organisation |
| Location | |
Area served | India |
| Website | http://www.sankalpindia.net/ |
Sankalp India Foundations is a Bangalore-based non-government organisation.[1] It is a youth organisation working for blood donation, thalassemia, bone marrow transplantation and disaster relief.[citation needed]
Voluntary Blood Donation
[edit]Since 2003,[2] it has been working for voluntary blood donation in Karnataka. A blood helpline is run by the organisation.[3] It also organizes several blood donation camps. It is one of the pioneer organisations which helps patients worldwide with a rare blood group "Bombay Blood Group" (also known as hh blood group).[4]
Sankalp India Foundation has done extensive work in the areas of quality and safety of blood donation camps, studying the extent of non-compliance[5] and adverse donor events[6] blood banks in voluntary blood donation camps.
Thalassemia Management
[edit]Sankalp India Foundation runs several day care centers across South and West India for patients suffering from Thalassemia and related blood disorders .
- Thal Day Care, Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, Bangalore
- Project Samraksha, Rashtrotthana Parishat, Bangalore [7][8]
- Wenlock District Hospital, Mangalore [9]
- Jai Shivshakti Center For Thalassemia, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum
- Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Centre, Nagpur
- Radha Mohan Mehrotra Global Hospital Trauma Center, Abu Road
- Indian Red Cross Society, Nellore
- Sankalp Centre for Thalassemia Care, Rajkot
- Sarvoday Samarpan, Mumbai
- Shree Jalaram Abhuday Sadbhavana Trust, Ahmedabad
- Indian Red Cross Society, Eluru
- Mamata Foundation, Vijayawada
- KJ Somaiya Hospital, Mumbai
- Day care centre at RDT Hospital, Ananthapur is also part of the network.
Thalassemia Prevention
[edit]The StopThalassemia campaign is an initiative of Sankalp India Foundation to strengthen Thalassemia prevention by focusing on antenatal screening. The campaign provides screening services to pregnant women and their husbands in the first trimester of their pregnancy. The following maternity centres are part of the StopThalassemia Campaign:
- Lady Goschen Hospital – Mangalore
- District Hospital – Tumkur
- Rural Development Trust - Bathalapalli – Ananthpur
- Viswa Bharathi Super Speciality Hospital - Kurnool
- Father Muller Medical College – Mangalore
- Daga Memorial Government Women Hospital - Nagpur.
Disaster relief
[edit]Sankalp also participates in disaster relief activities. A few of the disasters in which it participated for relief are the Tsunami on the Indian sub continent,[10] Karnataka floods, Sikkim earthquake, J&K earthquake, and the Assam floods.[11]
Bone Marrow Transplant
[edit]Sankalp India Foundation has been offering bone marrow transplantation for patients suffering from thalassemia. The organisation started the first bone marrow transplantation center In collaboration with People Tree Hospitals and Cure2Children Foundation, Italy in Bangalore in August 2015.[12] In May 2017, the organisation has started a new bone marrow transplantation center in collaboration with Care Institute of Medical Science, Ahmedabad. In November 2017 Sankalp got into an understanding with MY Hospital, Indore for the new Bone Marrow Transplantation Program which started in March 2018.[13] a new centre was started in Bangalore in June 2021 at Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, Bangalore. The organisation has done more than 500 transplants for patients with thalassemia until December 2022.
Achievements
[edit]- AmeriCares India Jury's Choice ‘Spirit of Humanity Awards’ 2011[14]
- AmeriCares India Winner in Thalassemia category at ‘Spirit of Humanity Awards’ 2014[15]
- "Winner of Manthan Award Asia Pacific - 2013" under e-Health category.[16]
- Winner of The eNgo Challenge 2014 South Asia under "Organizational Efficiency" category[17]
- AmeriCares India Winner in child care category at ‘Spirit of Humanity Awards’ 2016[18]
References
[edit]- ^ "NGO connect: 'Bombay Blood' flown to Istanbul". Deccan Chronicle. Archived from the original on 28 October 2013.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "An appeal to donate blood". The Hindu. 7 July 2009.
- ^ "State-wide helpline for blood launched". The Hindu. 17 August 2009.
- ^ Rao R, Sunitha (7 March 2003). "Istanbul man finds blood donor in Bangalore". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
- ^ Agarwal, RK; Dhanya, R; Parmar, LG; Vaish, A; Sedai, A; Periyavan, S (1 January 2015). "A study of the noncompliance of blood banks on safety and quality parameters in blood donation camps in Bengaluru". Asian Journal of Transfusion Science. 9 (1): 23–8. doi:10.4103/0973-6247.150942. PMC 4339926. PMID 25722568.
- ^ Agarwal, RK; Periyavan, S; Dhanya, R; Parmar, LG; Sedai, A; Ankita, K; Vaish, A; Sharma, R; Gowda, P (1 February 2016). "Complications related to blood donation: A multicenter study of the prevalence and influencing factors in voluntary blood donation camps in Karnataka, India". Asian Journal of Transfusion Science. 10 (1): 53–8. doi:10.4103/0973-6247.165840. PMC 4782495. PMID 27011671.
- ^ "Thalassemia day care centre opened". The New Indian Express. 25 August 2013. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
- ^ "Thalassemia: The growing challenge". Deccan Chronicle. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
- ^ "Thalassaemia day-care centre to open today". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- ^ "People remember Tsunami victims". The Times of India. 26 December 2010. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
- ^ Sourav Roy. "Water, Water, Everywhere". the-nri.com.
- ^ "Hope for Bengaluru kids with thalassemia". The Times of India. 28 August 2015.
- ^ "MY Hospital eyes high rate of success in BMT". The Times of India. 17 November 2017.
- ^ "AmeriCares Spirit of Humanity Awards 2011 Winners". www.americaresindia.org. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
- ^ "AmeriCares Spirit of Humanity Awards 2011 Winners". www.americaresindia.org.
- ^ "Manthan Awards Asia Pacific 2013 Winner". manthanaward.org. Archived from the original on 1 December 2014.
- ^ "eNgo Challenge 2014 South Asia Winners 2014". engochallenge.org.
- ^ "AmeriCares Spirit of Humanity Awards 2016 Winners". www.pharmabiz.com.