The Solidarity Fund of the Institution IPS (WA) (SOLIPS), organized on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 February 2022, in Abobo Filtisac, a blood donation campaign in favor of its workers, their families, under-employed personnel. contractors and surrounding communities.
This first blood donation campaign made it possible to collect 900 blood bags thanks to the strong mobilization observed during these two days of activity.
From the early hours of the morning, several hundred agents and staff members, their families and students from Nandjui Abrogoua University took part in this operation. Among them, Dr. Ouattara Bafétigué, Director of the Regional Center for University Works Abidjan 2 (CROU). Arrived on the site, he was first subjected to a medical questionnaire which takes into account the age, the weight, the date of the last donation, the state of health, etc.
The answers given are associated with the blood of the person concerned, in order to allow easy analysis of the quality of the blood. For him, it is always a great joy to give blood in order to relieve those who are in need.
According to CROU management, 450 people (CROU students and staff) were mobilized to take part in this activity.
For Léon Manouan, Deputy Secretary of the prevention and awareness committee of the organizing structure, the Covid-19 pandemic having caused a drop in blood collection, it was important to organize this campaign in order to supply the National Transfusion Center Sanguine (CNTS) to save lives, a priority for the organizers.
After the collection, each donor left with a well-stocked food kit, offered by the Groupe Carré d’Or, associated with the project.
Traoré Djakaridja, one of the volunteers, expressed his satisfaction at having donated blood. An activity he practices regularly “to help save lives”.
SOLIPS is a non-profit organization, created on October 18, 2003 by the Institution IPS (WA) initially to support the fight against HIV/AIDS within the companies of the Institution in Côte d’Ivoire. But its activities quickly expanded to include tuberculosis and malaria, and today include health and well-being programs in the workplace and in the communities surrounding the subsidiaries. At present, the structure covers all the companies of IPS(WA), in Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Senegal.
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