Sankalp India Foundation is a Bangalore-based non-government organisation. It is a youth organisation working for blood donation, thalassemia, bone marrow transplantation and disaster relief.
Voluntary blood donation Since 2003, it has been working for voluntary blood donation in Karnataka. A blood helpline is run by the organisation. It is one of the pioneer organisations which helps patients worldwide with a rare blood group, Bombay Blood Group (also known as hh blood group).
Sankalp India Foundation organizes several blood donation camps. It has conducted extensive work regarding the 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, prevention and care Sankalp India Foundation runs several day care centers across South and West India for patients suffering from thalassemia and related blood disorders: Thal Day Care, Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, Bangalore Project Samraksha, Rashtrotthana Parishat, Bangalore Wenlock District Hospital, Mangalore Jai Shivshakti Center For Thalassemia, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Centre, Nagpur Radha Mohan Mehrotra Global Hospital Trauma Center, Abu Road Indian Red Cross Society, Nellore Sankalp Centre for Thalassemia Care, Rajkot Sarvoday Samarpan, Mumbai Shree Jalaram Abhuday Sadbhavana Trust, Ahmedabad Indian Red Cross Society, Eluru Mamata Foundation, Vijayawada KJ Somaiya Hospital, Mumbai Day care centre at RDT Hospital, Ananthapur is also part of the network.
Its StopThalassemia campaign is an initiative of Sankalp India Foundation to strengthen thalassemia prevention by focusing on antenatal screening. The campaign provides screening services to pregnant women and their husbands in the first trimester of their pregnancy. The following maternity centres are part of the campaign: Lady Goschen Hospital – Mangalore District Hospital – Tumkur Rural Development Trust - Bathalapalli – Ananthpur Viswa Bharathi Super Speciality Hospital - Kurnool Father Muller Medical College – Mangalore Daga Memorial Government Women Hospital - Nagpur
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 connected to MY Hospital, Indore for a new bone marrow transplantation program, which started in March 2018. a new centre started in June 2021 at Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, Bangalore. The organisation performed more than 500 transplants for patients with thalassemia until December 2022.
Disaster relief The organization 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.
Achievements AmeriCares India's Spirit of Humanity Awards Jury's Choice, 2011 Thalassemia category, 2014 Child care category, 2016 Manthan Award Asia Pacific, e-Health category, 2013 eNgo Challenge winner, South Asia Organizational Efficiency category, 2014
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External links Official website