Surat: Besides rescuing people from various natural and man-made calamities, Fire and Emergency personnel of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) are also trying to fight shortage of blood in city’s blood banks by donating their own.
The department organized a two-day blood donation camp at its Vesu centre to bridge the demand-supply gap, which had been hugely affected during the pandemic-induced lockdown in the city.
“We have learnt that there has been shortage of blood in SMC-run SMIMER Hospital and urged our staff to come forward for donation. In two days, we have collected 135 units,” said Basant Pareek, chief fire officer, SMC.
Meanwhile, to pay tributes to late ex-CM Keshubhai Patel, a 24-hour continuous blood donation camp has been organized to help people in need of blood in emergency cases.
The donation camp to start from 6 pm on Saturday is being organised by 'Keshubhai Patel Srandhanaji Ayojan samiti at Saurashtra Patel Bhavan in Mini Bazaar in Varachha area.