Laxity shown by the Government and Private hospitals to conduct blood donation camps once or twice in a year is a bad practice.
Though people of all hues know it very well that blood donation is a noble human cause for which people on certain occasions come forward but unfortunately very rarely due to lack of public awareness about blood donation in Jammu & Kashmir. Unlike past hardly relations, well wishers and friends of needy patients bother to come forward for donating blood for them in time and as such many lives are lost in struggle for arranging blood in time by their families. So the introduction of a routine practice of organising one or two blood donation camps in a calendar year at both Government and Private hospitals could be the beginning of long drawn process of establishing blood banks at health facilities even in the remotest of the remote areas in Jammu & Kashmir. True it is that Government and private hospitals conduct medical camps for extending the counseling and even surgical facilities to patients from time to time but hardly any private or Government hospital conducts blood donation camp once in a year. Laxity shown by the Government and Private hospitals to conduct blood donation camps once or twice in a year is a bad practice and as such the introduction of a routine practice of the conduct of blood donation camps atleast once or twice in a year in every Government and Private Hospital deserves the immediate attention and intervention of the twin directorates of health department besides the Administrative Secretary of the health and medical education department and Principals of all the Government Medical Colleges across Jammu & Kashmir.
Once a regular practice of one or two blood donation camps is introduced in Government and as well as Private Hospitals, the blood banks can be very easily set up at Government and Private Hospitals for the facility of needy patients even in the remotest of the remote areas in Jammu & Kashmir.
By all standards of understandabilities a regular practice of conducting one or two blood donation camps at both Government and as well as Private Hospital would ensure the availability of blood for the needy patients who often loose battle for life due to their inabilities in arranging the blood from donors in time. Once a regular practice of one or two blood donation camps is introduced in Government and as well as Private Hospitals, the blood banks can be very easily set up at Government and Private Hospitals for the facility of needy patients even in the remotest of the remote areas in Jammu & Kashmir. What matters the most is the fact that doctors and paramedics would be more than happy to come on the forefront in the launch of public awareness campaigns on conduct of blood donation camps in both Government and as well as Private Hospitals across Jammu & Kashmir. Once doctors and paramedics take a lead role in the launch of public awareness campaigns on conduct of blood donation camps, the rise in the no of donors would hopefully be unprecedented and beyond imagination. Rise in the no of donors likely to be witnessed at regular blood donation camps if conducted at regular intervals would raise the hardly leave any scope for lack of blood facility for needy patients at both Government and Private Hospitals across Jammu & Kashmir. The wide publicity given for the conduct of medical camps at both Government and as well as Private Hospital if given for conduct of blood donation campus would hugely generate the spirit of blood donation among people across Jammu & Kashmir.
