Revenue Patwar Union members donate blood

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, May 9

A blood donation camp was organised to observe World Thalassaemia Day at Sri Guru Ram Das Charitable Hospital here. On the occasion, members of the Revenue Patwar Union donated blood in view of the shortage of blood these days.

Deputy Commissioner Shivdular Singh Dhillon, who was also present, said blood collection had affected as blood donation camps, which were a regular feature by different societies, could be not organised recently.

The DC said he himself was a blood donor and had donated blood 37 times so far. “It is the most precious gift you can make to society and to your fellow human beings. People should come forward to donate blood so that lives could be saved,” he said.

District Revenue Officer Mukesh Sharma said that members of the patwar union had donated 25 units of blood during the camp. He said more donation camps would be organised soon. Patwaris had earlier cremated a local resident, Jaswinder Singh, who died of Covid-19, as his family had refused to accept his body after his death.