Source: Hindustan Times, Apr 2008
Taking a cue from Nagpur-based couple Khushroo and Fermin Paocha who compiled an SMS-enabled database of voluntary blood-donors across India, Delhi-based couple Rahul and Tulika Verma have started a website for maintaining a record of people with rare blood groups.
The idea behind www.rarebloodgroups.org is to maintain an up-to-date register of donors with rare blood types so that a patient in need can quickly be transfused with the required blood. According to Delhi government’s blood banks, there are only one or two units of rare blood as compared to the more common B+ for which there are close to 900 units available.
Read more and access the donorbase, here…
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