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College students donate stem cells
College students donate stem cells nearly 1,000 students of Meenakshi College for Women in Kodambakkam, Chennai have registered as potential stem cell donors with Datri Blood Stem Cell Donors Registry.
In a first of its kind effort, nearly 1,000 students of Meenakshi College for Women in Kodambakkam, Chennai have registered as potential stem cell donors with Datri Blood Stem Cell Donors Registry. Another 500 students are expected to register on March 30.
The unique initiative was the brainchild of college Principal K.S. Lakshmi who noticed the hopeless cancer patients during a visit to cancer institute at Adayar and wanted donations for a registry of stem cells. She took up the initiative with the students in her college during the prayer assembly sessions. The students were encouraged to discuss the issue and soon through the college’s various student clubs, it gathered momentum.
Only students above 18 years are allowed to donate. The student-donors had to get a consent letter from their parents. Datri provided a donation kit to each donor and also explained what the students had to do. The students were registered by providing their names with the college ID.
To safeguard the interest of the donors the college took an undertaking from Datri that the donor stem cells would not be misused. Datri’s co-founder Raghu Rajagopal said it was phenomenal that so many women had registered as potential donors.
