Governor
interacts with the Red Cross functionaries
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World
Red Cross Day interaction
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Red
Cross’ TS unit services appreciated
Hyderabad, May 8: Governor Dr.
Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday emphasized on the need to promote public
education and ensure their COVID-appropriate behaviour to contain the spread of
the pandemic.
“Besides ensuring the strict adherence
to the preventive norms by the people for which we need to have collective
resolve, we must also intensify our service activities to reach out to the
needy, she added.
The Governor was virtually interacting
with the functionaries of the Indian Red Cross Society’s Telangana State unit
and district units on the occasion of the World Red Cross Day.
The Governor appreciated the IRCS, TS
branch, activities in promoting blood donations, ensuring regular blood
transfusion to the Thalassemia patients and other service activities during the
natural calamities and during other times of emergencies.
“You all have helped thousands of
people during the first wave of the pandemic. It is high time that we intensify
our humanitarian activities to meet the growing demands during this deadly
second wave of the pandemic,” she added.
Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan also
called for the enrolment of more number of volunteers in Red Cross, Youth Red
Cross and Junior Red Cross to prepare the torchbearers of the future service.
While conveying her greetings to the
Red Cross volunteers on the occasion, the Governor paid rich tributes to Red
Cross founder and the first Noble Peace Prize winner Henry Dunant, whose birth
anniversary is celebrated as the World Red Cross Day every year on May 8th.
Referring to the World Red Cross
Day-2021 theme, “Together we are Unstoppable,” she highlighted the need to be
united and called for the collective resolve and collective effort to end the
pandemic.
The Red Cross State level and district
units’ functionaries thanked the Governor for her unique initiatives and for mentoring
and guiding them in their service activities from time to time in her capacity
as the President of the IRCS State unit.
The Governor took part in the virtual
interaction programme from Raj Niwas, Puducherry, where is she is holding an
additional charge as the Lt. Governor.
Secretary to Governor K. Surendra
Mohan coordinated the virtual interaction from the Raj Bhavan, here, and
presented the summary of activities taken up by the different units of the IRCS
in the State.
Senior functionaries of the IRCS and
the officers of the Raj Bhavan too have joined the virtual interaction.
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