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48th National Pharmacy Week, 2009 at Himalayan Pharmacy Institute, Majitar

VoiceofSikkim
19 Nov, Rangpo: Himalayan Pharmacy Institute (HPI), the only institute catering Pharmacy course in Sikkim, has inaugurated the celebration of 48th National Pharmacy Week along with the entire country with a Health Awareness Rally on 19th November, flagged by Emeritus professor and senior most pharmacists Dr. B.P.Saha at Rangpo bazaar. A mass of students and staff of the institute along with play cards, banners and festoons displaying health related information were exhibited. The rally started at 8.30 in the morning at Rangpo and concluded in the college campus at Majitar.
From 11am, the Red Ribbon Club (RRC) chapter of HPI organized a voluntary blood donation camp sponsored by Sikkim State Aids Control Society (SSACS).The Principal of the institute Dr. Amitava Ghosh, volunteered himself as the first donor to commemorate the first ever blood donation camp in the history of the institute. 37 units of blood were collected for the Central blood bank, Sikkim under the medical supervision of Dr. Chintamoni Sharma. Considering huge response and enthusiasm from the students and staff, RRC coordinator Sri Arun Bakshi of HPI has decided to make blood donation camp a quarterly feature in its’ activities and had given a call to the society people to come forward for donation as ‘few drops of blood can save thousands of lives’.

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