65 donate blood at village camp

Our Correspondent

NURPUR, JANUARY 14

The Nurpur Blood Donors’ Club (NBDC) organised its 16th camp at Kataruckhak, a remote village bordering Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, yesterday. Members of the local youth club and social organisations took keen interest in donating blood.

A team from blood bank of the Civil Hospital, Pathankot, collected 65 units. The volunteers also fulfilled emergency blood requirement of patients hailing from Nurpur and surrounding areas.

According to Rajiv Pathania, president of the NBDC, there was acute shortage of blood units in the Pathankot Civil Hospital nowadays and the NBDC had planned the camp in the remote village of Pathankot district. Bhupinder Singh (46), a regular donor, had donated blood 62 times since he was 18.

Meanwhile, the NBDC has urged Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur to fulfil his announcement made in March 2017 at Nurpur for sanctioning a blood bank in the Nurpur Civil Hospital. It pleaded that in the absence of any blood bank, they had to rush either in Tanda Medial College or civil hospital at Pathankot for donating blood units.