Five of the donation camps have already been completed and steps are being taken to host the remaining camps within this month. The PUCSL held its first blood donation camps in the Kurunegala, Puttalam, Anuradhapura and Ratnapura districts where blood was urgently needed, and more than 800 blood donors were registered for these camps. Commenting on the rapid blood donation camps host by the PUCSL, Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka, Mr Janaka Ratnayake said,“At the end of May, the National Blood Transfusion Center requested our assistance in obtaining blood for national need. We were able to donate nearly 500 pints of blood to those camps, depending on the needs of the blood transfusion centers in each district. Our goal is to donate 2,500 pints of blood to the blood bank,”“We have scheduled to host 7 more special blood donation camps in Ratnapura, Kandy, Polonnaruwa, Gampaha, Jaffna and Mullaitivu districts to meet the blood needs, during this month.
