Among the many critical supplies that have been affected in India’s lockdown is blood. A little planning could have averted this, as one state shows At the beginning of April, after the first chaotic week of the lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a request for blood from relatives of patients at a large corporate hospital in Delhi kept coming in to the Twitter handle @BloodDonorsIn started by entrepreneur Balu Nayar.
The handle, started in 2008, has 1.2 million followers and coordinates requests from a network of 40-plus cities and towns. The volunteer operating the handle for Nayar decided to call the number given as a contact to check.
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