While there is a shortage of blood post-Diwali because there are fewer blood donation drives during the festival, the shortage is more severe this year, said doctors. The blood bank at KEM Hospital, Parel, city’s biggest municipal hospital, has put up a notice board with numbers of blood banks in the city, asking patients and their relatives to get blood from other sources. Contact Think Foundation on 022-65181341 / 43“We have been calling other blood banks at Nair and Sion hospital, but it seems like the shortage is across blood banks,” he said. “I have called up 13 blood banks since morning looking for B+ blood group, but all of them said they don’t have it owing to the shortage. “The only way to overcome the shortage is to organise more blood donation camps,” he added.

Source: Hindustan Times November 10, 2017 06:22 UTC