‘J-Blast’ to donate blood to needy persons

A group of voluntary blood donors launched a ‘blood loaning arrangement system team (J-Blast)’ in Kota on the occasion of World Blood Donors Day on Thursday.

“J-Blast, a team of around 2,500 voluntary blood donors, would provide replacement blood to the blood banks providing blood to needy persons,” said Bhuvnesh Gupta, convener of J-Blast and Team Jeevandata, a group of blood donors who are involved in voluntary blood donation in Kota for the last one decade.

Gupta said persons in need of blood usually faces two kinds of situation at the blood banks; either the blood banks demand replacement blood from the needy person following shortage of the particular blood group or in the second condition they completely refuse to provide blood to the needy person due to absolute dearth of the particular group’s blood.

In the first situation, J-Blast team would ask the blood banks to provide blood to the needy person and later J-Blast members would compensate for it through blood donation within 2 to 8 hours of time, he said.

In the second condition, in which blood banks face absolute shortage of a particular group’s blood, J-Blast would circulate message of the needed blood group on social media and the team members with the desired blood group will donate blood at the blood bank within 3 hours time, he added.

“Whats app group of blood donors of different blood groups have been formed to readily provide required blood to the needy persons,” Gupta said. “We have formed J-Blast to ensure that no one dies of blood shortage,” he added.

On the lines of financial banking system, J-Blast team has created savings account, current account and loan account system for blood donation. “The blood collected on birthdays, anniversaries and other auspicious occasion of J-Blast members through organising blood donation camps will be kept in the savings account,” Gupta said. He said J-Blast members would also motivate friends and relatives of the patients provided with blood to donate their blood and the blood donated by them would be collected in the current account. In the loan account, blood would be made available to the needy person from the blood bank and J-Blast members would provide replacement blood to the blood bank, he added.

Gupta said there are around half-a-dozen private blood banks and a government hospital blood bank, where a register of J-Blast will maintain a record of all three accounts related to the blood donation.

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