HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, June 5: Cachar DC Rohan Kumar Jha inaugurated a voluntary blood donation camp in presence of superintendent of police Numal Mahatta at Assam Medical Service Association’s house of SM Dev Civil Hospital on Monday as a part of Cachar District Day celebration on June 13 and on the occasion of World Blood Donor Day on June 14.
With the slogan – ‘Give blood, give plasma, share life, share often’, DC Rohan Kumar Jha urged people to come forward with the great duty of donating blood to save people’s lives.
DC Jha said, “As a part of Cachar Foundation Day celebrations on June 13, a voluntary blood donation camp was organised at the civil hospital on Monday.”
DC Jha also mentioned that for the first time in Cachar, the residents will get all information and details about the historical importance of the district, the importance of this civilisation built along the bank of Barak River through various programmes, which will be organised by the district administration.
DC Rohan Kumar Jha thanked the superintendent of police Numal Mahatta and BSF jawans for participating in the program and announced that as part of District’s Day celebrations, a clean-up drive will be started from Capital Point on Tuesday morning, and a theme song also will be unveiled on the occasion at 11:00 am. The DC requested the media persons to attend the program. Superintendent of police Numal Mahatta also gave a relevant speech on the occasion at the blood donation camp.
It’s noteworthy to mention here that 42 BSF jawans and district police personnel donated their blood and 46 units of blood were collected by various health workers including in-charge, Blood Bank, SMC&H, Dr Rajib Biswas and assistant professor of SMC&H, Dr Aniruddha Debnath at the blood donation camp on the occasion, stated a press release.