My First Blood Donation

I am doing a course at Apollo Gleneagles Hospital in Kolkata under Medvarsity Online Ltd. through distance learning. I am presently doing a contact program from 30 th July to 12 August in this hospital at Eastern Metropolitan bypass. It is my fourth day in the contact program. Today we did our class on Human Resource Management from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. We were asked to do a department visit on the same day. We are a batch of 30 students. We come from various backgrounds of doctor, hospital employee, housewives who are qualified doctors, nurses, paramedical staff. Students living far away from Kolkata like Durgapur, Tripura have come to this contact program on the above-mentioned dates.

I never gave blood anywhere before in my life. I thought primarily due to unhygienic condition and the chance of getting infected with disease was my primary fear. I loved the atmosphere of Apollo Gleneagles Hospital. The hygienic surrounding of Apollo Gleneagles Hospital will motivate you to give blood. Giving blood is a social work. It is a duty to the society. It is for the patients who need blood and it is the only thing which we cannot get in a shopping mall. It is produced by man for another human being. Blood has a limited life span. Blood is basically composed of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. A person giving blood will be able to get blood from the hospital when he or his relative is admitted to the same hospital.

I gave blood along with four students of Medvarsity Online Ltd. They are my close friends. Two of them are males and two are female donors. I am a donor with A+ blood. The hospital has a systematic approach of blood testing with sophisticated equipment imported from foreign countries. The costs of the equipment for blood testing goes around Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 75,000. The Blood Bank has equipments to store blood for a long period of time.

Procedure for Blood Donation

The procedure for blood donation are as follows: