In a unique initiative, the Sundargarh district police have started blood bank services for the patients requiring blood.
Besides giving protection and maintaining law and order of the district, the police will be on a public service activity like donate blood and save life of the patients, requiring blood urgently. The introduction of this blood bank service, which is stated to improve the police-public relationship in the district, has received wide appreciations from various quarters.
Sundargarh SP Pinak Mishra officially declared opening of the blood bank service on Sunday evening. The blood bank service is a database of blood groups of all the police personnel. Whosoever requires blood in emergency can contact in the numbers.
“We have created a database of ‘blood groups’ of about 800 police personnel which has been kept in the police headquarters of Sundargarh,” said SP Mishra.
A poster of the service has also been circulated by Sundargarh police to help the public know about it. In this poster besides informing about the police blood bank, there is a slogan like ‘Sundargarh police is at your service.’