For a noble mission, Rotarians Chas Rotary Club donated blood for patients, particularly children. A blood donation drive was organised by Rotarians on Red Cross Blood Bank’s premises where members of the club donated blood. Over 33 units of blood were collected, informed Rotarian Herbansh Singh Saluja.
Usually, patients suffering from Thalassemia require blood transfusion twice a month and owing to the lockdown in place to combat spread of coronavirus, reserves at blood banks are low, said Saluja.
Saluja urges citizens to come forward to donate blood. “Blood donation is the pious work. It saves the life of a person. The donator receives many blessings for this kind act. Donating blood is the highest form of service of humanity, at the same time the donator gets fresh blood and becomes healthier,” he added.
Any healthy individual aged between 18 and 60 years and whose weight is above 50 kg with more than 12.5 dg/ ml Haemoglobin contain in the blood can donate their blood once in every three months, he said.
Saluja is also popular as ‘Blood Man’, recently felicitated with national honoured at Odisha for his work done in the field of blood donation in several part of the country including Jharkhand.
42-year-old Saluja has brought a new consciousness and awareness towards blood donation; himself he has donated blood more than 33 times so far. He has arranged more than 5000 units of blood through the blood donation camps especially in giving life to children suffering from thalassemia in the district.
He has always been working towards blood donation. It has also been honoured by various social organizations in the past for their commendable work.
Beside others, Aman Mallik the president of Rotary Club Chas, Dr Suman, Abha Bharti, Deepak Jhajharia, Amit Kejriwal, Manjit Singh, Tanvir Singh, Arun Lodha, Raj Kumar Poddar, Sailesh Kumar, Sanjay Poddar, Sanjay Baidh, Vinay Singh, Dr Pushpa, Siddharth Parikh, Charanprit Singh, Kumar Amardeep including members of the club were present there.