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Why Blood‌ ‌Donation‌ is Important and ‌Vizag Volunteers Services

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  You're making the world a better place by doing your bit as a Good Samaritan. All you need to do is reach out to a nearby blood bank and schedule an appointment. You can save lives by donating blood at the Blood Bank ! As a donor, you'll get to give back by providing much needed red blood cells to patients in need. Did you know that blood taken from a healthy person splist into three parts? One part goes to the person in need of a transfusion. Two parts they use to test for certain illnesses. Blood banks play a vital role because there may not be an exact match between the donor and a donated blood unit. It’s only one out of every 200 people is a blood match? This means that 200 people will need to get tested before the best possible match gets selected. The reasons for this drastic difference is due to blood types, illnesses, age etc;. It's unfortunate but it is completely necessary because donated blood helps save lives. Blood donors are also crucial to this process. Th...
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Railway Station Volunteering by Vizag Volunteers

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  The Pandemic situation has brought all the transportation to a halt cancelling all the trains from the 25th of March 2019. The IRCTC has suspended reservations for regular train services from 15th April. After the second lockdown, the Indian Railways started to operate 200 special trains from June 1st, 2020. More than 1.45 lakh passengers travelled on the first day. The Railway Station Authority in Visakhapatnam has hired a few government teachers to collect the data of the people travelling from Hyderabad through the Godavari train. As the employees were irregular to work the Railway authority approached Vizag Volunteers for support.  A team of 40 was formed with the head volunteers being Mr. Satish and Mr. Animish Varma. This work started on June 5th, 2020 and lasted till July 1st, 2020. The volunteers served the Railway authority regularly from morning 5 am till 7:30 pm.   Their work was to collect the data of the Godavari passengers travelling from Hyderabad. ...
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Third Wave- All You Need To Know

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 We all are still fighting with the second wave and trying to come out of it healthy, but before we could strengthen ourselves the Third wave of Corona is ready to attack us. The first wave was very much new to all of us, people were scared as they had less knowledge of it. It didn't affect people as much as the second wave has taken many lives. The second wave symptoms were cough, fever, sore throat, body pains etc., People could see these symptoms from the 2nd day or sometimes after a week of getting affected. Even though many of them fought back the virus others have lost their dear ones. The second wave has seen a lot of deaths when compared to the first wave. As India saw a dip in the cases from the last year 2020 November they never assumed to be hit by the second wave so soon. The government was not prepared for the consequences till they saw a rise in Coronavirus cases and deaths around the Country. They understood that a disease can not be muted so easily and one must be ...
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