West Bengal Police has started a community policing initiative recently styled ‘UTSARGA’. Under this project,blood donation and free medical cheekup camps are organised by various units in turns regularly at the districts. The program was started in May, 2017 being encouraged by Hon’ble Chief Minister. Every week such blood donation & medical cheek-up camps are being organised in couple of units rotationally as scheduled. Hon’ble Chief Minister appreciated this noble gesture and conveyed good wishes to all members of West Bengal Police on this occasion.
Donating blood is a noble deed. Blood banks all over the world store various types of blood according to their groups.These require replenishment from time to time to meet urgent demands. In a country like India, where the summer is hot and humid, people donate lesser units of blood. So there is generally a deficit in the supply of blood. Many organisations 
voluntarily collect blood by motivating people to donate blood for preservations, which may become very useful for the survival of ailing people, who may need this valuable fluid urgently.
There has been a gap between demand and supply of blood during summer because 
collections from blood donation camps are low. People normally stay away from donating blood this time. However, it was officers and men of West Bengal Police who came forward at the call of Hon’ble Chief Minister to deal with the short supply of blood during scorching summer and donated 16,000 units of blood in a span of 7 days.
West Bengal Police is now planning to continue the project through out year after its grand success.
By Our Correspondent
