While the world is all set to celebrate World Blood Donor Day on Tuesday with the theme 'Blood connects us all', we are here to clear the air and raise awareness about blood donation. "Our body recovers 100% after blood donation, rather I would suggest that blood donation is a good activity." "Blood donation is noble cause indeed and it's sad to see such a large blood deficit in our country. To understand better, Curofy- India's largest community of verified doctors - conducted a poll asking doctors about the most common myth around blood donation. Only nine million units of blood are collected annually, while the need is for 12 million units.

Source: dna June 13, 2016 11:37 UTC