The Bloody Citizen
The Bloody Citizen’ is a work of the NGO Khoon. It is an effort to educate its readers about Blood. With articles related to precautions, instructions, myths & reality etc, it talks about various topics under this huge umbrella and persuades the readers to donate blood and save lives. It uses the power of pen, and the beauty of prose & poetry, to get the message across. ‘The Bloody Citizen’, being the first of its kind, wishes to spread the word and bridge the gap to bring significant information to your doorstep in a way that one can easily understand.
The Bloody Citizen’ is a work of the NGO Khoon. It is an effort to educate its readers about Blood. With articles related to precautions, instructions, myths & reality etc, it talks about various topics under this huge umbrella and persuades the readers to donate blood and save lives. It uses the power of pen, and the beauty of prose & poetry, to get the message across. ‘The Bloody Citizen’, being the first of its kind, wishes to spread the word and bridge the gap to bring significant information to your doorstep in a way that one can easily understand.
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Every other day we come across a story<br />
of a person in a hospital in dire<br />
need of blood units to save their life. With<br />
the outburst of advanced communication<br />
technologies lately, there have been better<br />
ways to reach people in times of need. But<br />
their effectiveness is questionable. It was<br />
not long ago when I received a WhatsApp<br />
forward from a classmate asking for blood<br />
donation for his father who had been in a<br />
tragic road accident.<br />
According to a survey<br />
conducted by<br />
NDTV in 2013,<br />
there’s one<br />
death every<br />
four minutes<br />
due to road<br />
accidents in<br />
India. IndIndia<br />
ia. 1214 road<br />
crashes occur<br />
every day, and the<br />
number has only escalated<br />
since. A single<br />
car accident victim can<br />
require as many as 100<br />
units of blood.<br />
My friend circulated that<br />
message of plea among groups<br />
reaching hundreds of people. He<br />
desperately made calls to everyone<br />
he knew with t h e<br />
h o p e<br />
t h a t<br />
some- one would<br />
help his father.<br />
Now,<br />
y o u<br />
would think that<br />
someone must have<br />
answered the call and<br />
taken a noble step forward<br />
to help this person<br />
6 in need.<br />
I didn’t match the required blood group so I couldn’t<br />
help. I forwarded his message like a good citizen<br />
and didn’t bother about it again. Few days later I<br />
met my friend in college and asked him how was<br />
his father doing now, he said that he was just saved.<br />
Despite trying to reach many, many people for help,<br />
only two showed up. TWO out of hundreds.<br />
Now, why did he need blood donation? Because the<br />
man had been in an accident. Why<br />
didn’t the hospital supply it? Because<br />
it didn’t have any unit left.<br />
In- dia is the second most populated<br />
country of the<br />
world with 1.34 billion<br />
souls residing<br />
in it. Despite<br />
this immense<br />
crowd, we face<br />
a shortage of<br />
blood units.<br />
India was<br />
short of 1.1<br />
million blood<br />
units, as recorded<br />
in July 2016.<br />
India has 2,708 blood<br />
banks, but 81 districts still<br />
lack one, according to government<br />
data. According to<br />
a 2012 World Health Organisation<br />
(WHO) report, only nine<br />
million units are collected annually,<br />
while the need is for 12 million<br />
units.Moreover, the shelf-life of<br />
donated blood is 35 to 42 days. So,<br />
there is a constant need to replenish stocks in<br />
the blood banks.<br />
Here is one thing that needs<br />
to be stressed as much as<br />
possible- there is no replacement<br />
for blood.<br />
.
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