Panjab University sets up blood donation panel

Chandigarh, April 21

Considering the shortage of blood banks amid Covid-19 lockdown, Panjab University (PU) and its affiliated colleges have appealed to extend help to the hospitals and blood banks by motivating the teaching and non-teaching staff and students to donate blood.

Prof Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, PU, has appointed a 15-member Blood donation motivation committee under the chairmanship of Prof Shankarji Jha, Dean University Instructions, and Dr Keshav Malhotra as coordinator. Blood donors will be given ‘pick and drop; facility in sanitised vehicles of the hospital. The committee has been in constant touch with the blood banks of the following hospitals where the blood can be donated. — TNS