A teacher in a village government school in Nuapada, Odisha has been regularly donating blood for the past 30 years. He has participated in more than 400 blood donation camps and organises awareness drives for blood donation.

The controversy around 14 children being allegedly found infected with HIV and hepatitis post blood transfusion in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, has brought forth the demand to make NAT, or Nucleic Acid Test, mandatory. Details here.

More than two lakh patients in India suffer from kidney failure and about 50,000 have liver failure. Only 1,500 liver transplants and about 4,000 kidney transplants are performed annually. This means thousands of patients are dying each year due to lack of enough organs

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At times, mothers are not able to produce milk soon after delivery. In such cases, milk banks come to their rescue. Many new-mothers also donate milk voluntarily to help other mothers who might need help