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Industry Visit 2019
Industry Visit 2019
This visit was mainly focussed on to understand the procedures involved during blood donation,
the technology and the equipments used. Students were split into two groups. Dr.Sumithra Medical
officer there explained about the facilities available inside the centre, their methods of collecting
blood, the equipments used for the extraction of certain blood components and their storage and
Single Donor Platelets (Apheresis) unit . She also explained about the maintenance of the
equipment and ethics considered during blood storage and disposal.
After the tour, a presentation was arranged about the SURAKSHA a day care centre for kids
suffering from thalassemia that is run along with the blood centre.
Coordinator
Next, you hop to the actual museum – a big, white room that’s lined with shelves that
display transparent cases with all kinds of brains in them. There are over 400 of them. You start
off with the animal kingdom, a tiny chicken brain is followed by specimen from a duck, mouse,
rat, and a cow. You then move onto fetuses and trace the beginning of brain development in human,
including those that tragically fail to develop a brain at all – a condition called anencephaly.
Then comes a lineup of brains that have been suffered with conditions like Parkinson’s,
Alzheimer’s, and Cerebral Palsy. Others are of accident victims, many of whom could have easily
been saved with earlier diagnosis. And in the end, the specimen with neuro-infections such as
Tapeworm eggs affecting your brain or the amoeba that brings death should you inhale it in a dirty,
untreated pool.