Give Someone The Gift Of Life: DONATE BLOOD

WHO CAN DONATE BLOOD?

S  Without any discrimination between a man or woman, any person within the age group of 18-60 years can donate blood

S  Male and female can donate blood once in 3 months

S  Weight of the donor should be more than 50 kgs.

S  The donor’s systolic blood pressure should be 100 to 160mm/Hg and diastolic blood pressure should be 70 to 90mm/Hg.

S  Haemoglobin in blood should be more than 12.5 gm.

WHO CANNOT DONATE BLOOD?

S  Person who have consumed alcohol, antibiotics and within 72 hours cannot donate blood

S  If the donor is suffering from some contagious disease

S  Female donors during menstrual period, pregnancy, breast feeding and until one year after delivery cannot donate blood

S  Persons suffering from HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted disease, cancer, heart ailment, unnatural bleeding, reduction in weight without any reasons, diabetes, hepatitis B and C, ailment connected to kidney and liver, bronchitis, epilepsy, mental sickness should not donate blood

S  If vaccinated against any diseases, such persons should not donate blood till 2 weeks from the date of vaccination.

S  If treated for malaria, then should not donate blood till 6 months from the date of treatment.

S  If the person has taken aspirin tablets, then should not donate blood for 3 days.

S  Person who has received any blood within previous one year should not donate blood

S  Any person who has undergone a major surgery cannot donate blood for one year and minor surgery cannot donate blood for 3 months.

Blood Donation Camp coming up 

Venue: Amakine-Burhaniyah, Gottigere, Bangalore-83

Date:    22nd September 2013

Day:      Sunday

Time:    8am to 1pm
Registeration here: http://tinyurl.com/fakhrimedical

*Courtesy: Huzaifa Attarwala

Blood Donation Part4: Myth Busters

Myth: I should not donate blood frequently; it will make my body weak.
Fact: False. A healthy person can donate blood four times a year with a minimum a 3 months’ gap between each blood donation.

Myth: Can donating blood make me feel stressed with episodes of severe headache and vomiting?
Fact: False. Blood donation cannot cause episodes of headache and vomiting if the blood pressure of the donor is within normal limits prior to donation.

Myth: I should not donate blood frequently; it will lower my body’s immunity level.
Fact: False. Your body’s immunity level is not affected by blood donation.

Myth: Donating blood frequently can fluctuate my blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
Fact: False. Blood pressure and blood sugar levels do not fluctuate provided the pre-donation values are within normal limits.  A diabetic patient on insulin cannot donate blood.

Myth: Can donating blood at frequent intervals make my body iron deficient?
Fact: False. A healthy individual with good eating habits can donate blood four times a year with a gap of three months.  It doesn’t make anybody iron deficient

Myth: I am a retired person; I think I am too old to donate blood.
Fact: Yes. A person above 60 years and below 18 years cannot donate blood.

Myth: I can not donate blood when I am fasting.
Fact: Yes. One should have had a good meal at least four hours before donation.

Myth: Can frequent visits to the hospital for donating blood cause some infection?
Fact: False. No, there is no fear of infection due to blood donation.

Blood Donation Camp coming up 

Venue: Amakine-Burhaniyah, Gottigere, Bangalore-83

Date:    22nd September 2013

Day:      Sunday

Time:    8am to 1pm
Registeration here: http://tinyurl.com/fakhrimedical

*Courtesy: Huzaifa Attarwal

Blood Donation Part3: Myth Buster

Thought of as a selfless act, donating blood is a noble cause indeed. And yet very few of us take the time out to donate blood at blood donation drives or attend blood donor awareness campaigns. From ‘blood donation causes weakness’ to the threat of catching diseases, several myths about blood donations abound. Today, Dr. Rani Prem Kumar, Consultant, Blood Bank at Moolchand Medcity, helps clear the air and tells us which myths and facts about donating blood are true, and which false:

Myth: Donating blood makes me feel low.
Fact: False. However, many people feel that donating blood makes them feel weak. Again, this isn’t true. The thread of truth here arises from the fact that it takes a day or two to replenish the fluid volume in the body and three months for the regeneration of red cells to donate more blood

Myth: One is advised to take complete rest for a day after donating blood.
Fact: False. One can easily resume his or her normal day-to-day routine after donating blood, but should take care of the following:

• Drink at least 10-12 glasses of water including juices within 24 hours following blood donation. 
• Avoid sun exposure 
• Avoid driving for the next 2-3 hours
• Avoid smoking for next 4 hours 
• Avoid alcohol for next 24 hours

Smoking and Drinking is injurious to health and MUST be stopped irrespective of you are donating blood or not.

Myth: Blood donation is a painful procedure.
Fact: False. Donating blood is not painful at all. One only feels a slight pinching sensation when the needle pricks the arms

Blood Donation Camp coming up 

Venue: Amakine-Burhaniyah, Gottigere, Bangalore-83

Date:    22nd September 2013

Day:      Sunday

Time:    8am to 1pm
Registeration here: http://tinyurl.com/fakhrimedical

*Courtesy: Huzaifa Attarwala

Blood Donation Part-2: How rare is your blood type?

There are four main blood types: A, B, AB and O.

In 1901, Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian physician, discovers the first three human blood groups. On his birthday i.e June 14th "World Blood Donors Day" celebrates. On October 1st ‘National Blood Donation Day’ celebrates in India.

FREQUENCY OF BLOOD TYPES
O+ 1 person in 3	O- 1 person in 15
A+ 1 person in 3	A- 1 person in 16
B+ 1 person in 12	B- 1 person in 67
AB+ 1 person in 29	AB- 1 person in 167

Facts about donors

• The number one reason donors say they give blood is because they "want to help others."
• Two most common reasons cited by people who don't give blood are: "Never thought about it" and "I don't like needles."
• One donation can help save the lives of up to three people.
  
• If you began donating blood at age 18 and donated every 90 days until you reached 60, you would have donated 30 gallons of blood, potentially helping save more than 500 lives!
• Only 7 percent of people in India have O-negative blood type. O-negative blood type donors are universal donors as their blood can be given to people of all blood types.
• Type O-negative blood is needed in emergencies before the patient's blood type is known and with newborns who need blood.
• Thirty-five percent of people have Type O (positive or negative) blood.
• 0.4 percent of people have AB-blood type. AB-type blood donors are universal donors of plasma, which is often used in emergencies, for newborns and for patients requiring massive transfusions.
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  Blood Donation Camp coming up 
  
  
  Venue: Amakine-Burhaniyah, Gottigere, Bangalore-83
  Date:    22nd September 2013
  Day:      Sunday
  Time:    8am to 1pm
  *Courtesy: Huzaifa Attarwala

Blood Donation Part-1: Who Needs it?

Who Needs Blood?

Every year our nation requires about 4 Crore units of blood, out of which only a meager 40 Lakh units of blood are available.

• The gift of blood is the gift of life. There is no substitute for human blood.
• Every two seconds someone needs blood.
• More than 38,000 blood donations are needed every day.
• A total of 30 million blood components are transfused each year.
• The average red blood cell transfusion is approximately 3 pints.
• The blood type most often requested by hospitals is Type O.
• Sickle cell patients can require frequent blood transfusions throughout their lives.
• More than 1 million new people are diagnosed with cancer each year. Many of them will need blood, sometimes daily, during their chemotherapy treatment.
• A single car accident victim can require as many as 100 units of blood

Facts about the blood supply

Blood cannot be manufactured – it can only come from generous donors.

Type O-negative blood (red cells) can be transfused to patients of all blood types. It is always in great demand and often in short supply.

Type AB-positive plasma can be transfused to patients of all other blood types. AB plasma is also usually in short supply.

Blood Donation Camp coming up 

Venue: Amakine-Burhaniyah, Gottigere, Bangalore-83

Date:    22nd September 2013

Day:      Sunday

Time:    8am to 1pm

*Courtesy: Huzaifa Attarwala

Save Begur Lake

Hi All. I received this post in an email. I am RE-Posting it here just to extend my support to these guys. They are doing a great stuff.

Event schedule:

Venue:             In front of Begur Panchalingeswara Temple(entrance from Begur Lake side)

Dress code:     Blue jeans + White top(T-shirt) + Caps (keeping in mind sun/heat) for participants.

1.      Assemble near venue:            9:30 AM

2.      Human Chain formation from 10:00 AM -10:30 AM  (30 mins or max 1 hour)

3.      Oath taking (Kannada & English) – 5 mins

4.      Guest speaker: MLA (10 mins), Expert speaker on lake ( Ashwin Mahesh/ others (10 mins) & BBMP/ BDA Commissioner (10 mins)

5.      Attendees to clean up the litter created around the lake during the event(by participants) using disposable gloves.

Request :

·         We need minimum 30 volunteers. Can we request confirmation per return mail/sms.

·         Each resident welfare association to promote this event in their respective community mails/notices

·         Please inform maximum number of people including your kids, friends, relatives, and all others whom you know (don’t restrict to people in & around Singasandra & Begur) to ensure maximum participation for this event.

·         Please carry drinking water bottle (efforts are on to organize for the same at venue)

·         Prepare & bring placards for the event. Any size is fine (preferred size: 2 ft x 2ft)

·         There is enough car parking near venue. Request parking to be done in designated spots only.

·         Volunteers will only be happy to assist & clarify you

Note:

·         People of Begur have expressed their desire & interest to support us

·         Few political parties have extended their support to us.

Please join hands in big number & let’s make it grand success & save the lake for our next generation !!

Kindly confirm participation to following core group:

Ø  Kannan 8884963571 / Shaji 94498 14441 from Lake Bay Apmt

Ø  Vikas 98802 94886 / Mahesh Karpur 81056 48265 from Royal County Apmt

Ø  Ninan 99803 44357 / Prasanth 9900388130/ Prasad 98450 14801 from Lake Pt Tower Apmt

Ø  Kapil Sharma 98869 93070 from NGO SayTrees / Pallavi from NGO Bhoomi- pallavi.gadhar@gmail.com

Gottigere Lake -- Need urgent attention (Part 1)

Air and Water, the two basic necessity to sustain life are actually given free by God. Absolutely free with no taxes or maintenance to be paid. Anything if needs to be done is to take care of it. With modernization came along a baggage of issues. Air pollution, water pollution, deforestation.

Lets talk about Water pollution. Can be divided into two major categories. One is to where chemicals from factories, deadly by products are dumped into lakes and rivers, thus making it poisonous. Killing the under-water world habitat and also impacting the life that depends on it. Second is drying up the water resources like lakes.

Lakes, that usually acts as natural rain-water harvesting mechanism are very important part of our lives. They not only help in keeping the water table high, thus avoid bore-wells drying up. They can very well be developed as recreational area.

Below are images from Google earth of Gottigere Lake. Pictures taken in Year 2000, 2008, 2011, 2012. One can see the shrinking of the lake.

Year 2000

Year 2008

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Year 2010

 The picture taken in the year 2000. Just have a look at the size of the lake. I have seen this lake overflowing over the road in the monsoon.

Well, its no more the case. Infact there is no water left in the lake at all.

I will leave you here. Will be back with more on this topic soon.

Year 2011

Gottigere Village : Is it worth living here anymore?

I moved into Bangalore in 2003 and since then I have been visiting this area as Masjid was under construction then. Finally moved to this area in 2007. Earlier Gottigere village was outskirts of Bangalore, quite place with lush green meadows. Cattle grazing, beautiful lake and few houses.

Today, there is no open space left. All thanks to builders who in greed of making as much money as possible started building apartments. Initially taking the clearance from panchayat and that too for 4 floors. Then, fooling the authorities, they constructed 5 floors by naming 1st floor as "Ground" floor.

This greed grew more and then they started flouting the setback rules also.Every inch they owned was converted into concrete and items such as Transformer was placed outside the building, on the road. BESCOM authorities happily closed their eyes and gave the connections.

Well, as the greed never ends, now apartments started coming up on a 30X40 sites. Yes, a small, 2 flat on each floor kind of apartments, 4 storey stands right in front of my apartment.The buildings are so close to each other that you cannot open a window properly.

Drainage, liquor shops, water mafia, Corporator with "Go to hell" attitude. Actually its funny here. The corporator is a woman but the show is run by her husband's brother. What is the point in reserving the seats for Women, if they are going to be just a figure head and rest will be taken care by their relatives. Isn't it a slap on the face of Indians and all those who talk so much about giving women equal power and what not.

Anyway, I am searching for an answer to my question. Is it worth staying in this area? Or these problems are their everywhere?

For little money, authorities are sanctioning any and every plan that comes on their table. Closing the eyes on violations and wrong doings. Actually bigger question is "How much money is enough money"

Anybody....any idea...

My vote is my trust. Win my trust to win my vote

******************** This post is master work of Mustansir bhai Jeeruwala *********************************************

Its election time and the atmosphere is ripe with questions like "who are the candidates?", "which candidate to vote for?", "which party to vote for?" and cynical statements like "all are equally bad", "nothing is going to change" etc.etc. Added to all these, traffic jams due to political rallies, haphazardly pasted posters and banners throughout the city and chaotic law and order situation.

Political parties will do their electoral maths and field candidates based on caste, creed, religion and ethnicity irrespective of their leadership quality and ability to bring about any change that will make life easier for the people. All that the candidates do is "promise" the moon.

Ironically, all political parties share one common vision. Win the election and make money.

This kind of thinking does not inspire me to vote. Its like appointing a person to run my company based on his/her promises to grow my business 10 folds. So, I would like to alter my thinking and see what difference can it make. To start with, I want to ask myself a question - What change do I want?

Here are a few of my small basic desires as an urban citizen of Karnataka :

- Clean and Safe Drinking Water
- Restore lakes
- Stop illegal constructions
- Clean and mosquito free environment
- Uninterrupted Power supply 24 x 7
- Pothole free roads
- Safe roads and efficient traffic management
- Crime and corruption free environment
- Quality education
- Quality healthcare at an affordable cost (especially for our elderly citizens)
- Decrease in tax rates, efficient enforcement of tax laws to deter tax evasion without any harassment.

I would like the candidates/parties to put forward their "plan" to fulfill these desires. Whose ever plan I find most convincing, my vote will go to him/her.

Candidates, you need to convince me with your PLANS not with your promises. After all, my vote is my trust and you can't win my trust on empty promises. Get that?

So, go ahead. Convince me. I am listening.

Election Time

Every Dog has a day. Election time is one such for common Man. They start seeing people visiting them with hands folded and big ear-to-ear smile on their face. The very same people who otherwise will not give them a mere glance unless they had an appointment.

The chamcha's and chela's of the so called politicians first secure the confidence and then time of the common man. The big guy than visits and gives a fantastic, convincing speech  Listens to all the people around, returns a smile for every question asked and every demand put forth.

I usually wonder, what people think about these politicians's as. GOD? May be. Because once they come, common man starts talking to him about water table going down, no rains, etc etc. Why cant they just stick to basics, and talk about the things that practically can be achieved by a human being.

Well, cutting it short, this is what I think I would ask a politician coming for securing my vote. I live in Gottigere and these are the basic things that I really need to lead a peaceful life.


1) Initiate and complete the road laying work asap, maintaining the quality
2) Get the Cauvery water connection in our area (Gottigere)
3)  Stop and take action on the illegal constructions
4) Stop illegal digging of borewells
5) Today there is no proper drainage system existing. Make a network such that drain water can be carried out properly
6) The biggest of all is RESTORE Gottiere Lake. Once the lake is rejuvenated, the water problem of the area will just vanish.


I believe that once we give a good quality of life to people, getting their support is piece of cake.

Anybody listening?