Navi Mumbai: Recognising the paramount significance of people being conscious of their blood group, particularly throughout emergencies, the Navi Mumbai Municipal School administration has taken proactive steps in accordance with the central authorities’s pointers. Under the steerage of NMMC Commissioner Rajesh Narvekar, a “Special Blood Group Screening Campaign” has been initiated for college students.

As per central authorities directives, it’s now obligatory to register college students’ blood group data together with their private particulars on the designated portal. This particular marketing campaign is scheduled to run from October 21 to October 27, 2023.

To make sure the seamless execution of this initiative, an important assembly was held on October 20, bringing collectively the Education Officer, Center Coordinators of the Education Department, pathologists, and laboratory technicians from public hospitals in Vashi, Airoli, and Nerul.

Over 44,000 Students To Be Benefitted

In this expansive marketing campaign, a complete of 44,269 college students are set to bear blood group testing. To oversee this effort, pathologists from public hospitals in Vashi, Airoli, and Nerul have been appointed as nodal officers. Additionally, laboratory technicians from these respective hospitals and medical officers related to the National Child Health Program have been tasked with supervisory tasks.

In the planning part of this marketing campaign, every nodal officer has been allotted a selected variety of college students to supervise. Dr. Shubhangi Muneshwar is answerable for 14,458 college students in Vashi, Dr. Vishwajit Patil is accountable for 14,240 college students at Maasaheb Minatai Thackeray Hospital in Nerul, and Dr. Prajakta Kulkarni is overseeing the blood group testing of 15,571 college students at Rajmata Jijau Hospital in Airoli.

For the NMMC space, a complete of 20 inspection groups are in operation, every comprised of a laboratory technician and an assistant laboratory technician. In this technique, blood samples are collected by the assistant technician, whereas the laboratory technician determines the blood group. On the primary day of blood grouping, 4,303 college students underwent testing.

Teachers Given Full Responsibility

The duty of making certain that each one college students bear blood group testing lies with the college lecturers, who’ve been directed to make sure that all present college students take part. The Health Department is entrusted with conducting the blood group assessments and forwarding the outcomes to the Center Coordinator of the Education Department, endorsed by the Nodal Officer/Pathologist. Importantly, this blood group testing is supplied freed from cost.

The blood group testing of scholars is a singular and vital endeavor, and Municipal Commissioner Shri. Rajesh Narvekar has urged mother and father to acquire their kid’s blood group data, notably for these learning in municipal faculties, and preserve it on file. Your kid’s blood group may very well be an important piece of data throughout instances of want.

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Published on: Thursday, October 26, 2023, 12:50 PM IST