Sankalp India Foundation


Sankalp India Foundations is a Bangalore-based non-government organisation. It is a youth organisation working for blood donation, thalassemia, bone marrow transplantation and disaster relief.

Activities

Voluntary Blood Donation

Since 2003, it has been working for voluntary blood donation in Karnataka. A blood helpline is run by the organisation. 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".
Sankalp India Foundation has done extensive work in the areas of quality and safety of blood donation camps, studying the extent of non-compliance and adverse donor events blood banks in voluntary blood donation camps.

Thalassemia Management

Sankalp India Foundation runs several day care centers across South and West India for patients suffering from Thalassemia and related blood disorders.
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, Karnataka floods, Sikkim earthquake, J&K earthquake, and the Assam floods.

Bone Marrow Transplant

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. 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 is expected to start in March 2018. The organisation has done more than 200 transplants for patients with thalassemia until May 2019

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