With professional and voluntary blood donors staying away fearing the Covid-19 virus, doctors at the Pt Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Medical College, Raipur, on Saturday came forward to donate blood to create awareness and remove doubts from the mind of people.
More than 15 doctors donated blood and made an appeal to the people to come forward to donate blood without fear of getting infected with the Covid-19 virus.
The blood donation camp was led by the head of the pathology and microbiology department Dr Arvind Neral.
Neral had been donating blood for the last 40 years while his son, Arindam (24) too donated blood on Saturday.
Patients of thalassemia, sickle-cell anemia, hemophilia and cancer require blood every two months, said hospital blood bank in-charge Dr Vijay Kapse.
Keeping Covid-19 pandemic in view, special arrangement has been made in the blood bank, Kapse said.
Emergency operation and delivery are being held at the hospital and based on the requirement, blood is being supplied, he said.
Necessary arrangement has been made for the blood donors to come and donate blood to ensure continuous supply of blood, Kapse said.
The Centre and the state government advisories for COVID-19 is being maintained and followed and a healthy environment is being provided to the donors, he said.
The other doctors who donated blood included Dr Shashikant Singh, Dr Vishrut Mishra, Dr Amit Kumar Bharadwaj, Dr Sudama Rathore, Dr Aviral Mishra, Dr Yogeshwar Swarnkar, Dr Dheeraj Dadsena, Dr Kaushal Chakrabarty, Dr Riti Sharma, Dr Piyush Bharghav, and Dr Gyanuka Verma.