Red Cross Blood Centre in Cuttack has received an award of excellence in the field of voluntary blood donation. It is also providing free blood to thalassemia patients.
The programme aims to create a cadre of trained volunteers, numbering 1% of the population of each district.
The concept of the Medicine banks has been evolved with the object of providing medicines free of cost to poor & needy people to the extent possible, supplementing the services by the Government in providing free medicines.