Its 15th morning again...same Blood Bank at Nimhans. While donating blood, I saw this group of 4 guys who had come from a remote town of Karnataka to donate blood to one of their relatives. One of them (maybe around 30 yrs) had a reasonably high BP, but he was not sure what it meant to him. The nurse was trying to explain him what it was and what he should be doing in future. He was just talking till the nurse asked him to shut his mouth! It was funny!
This time, I got to know that they have a demand of almost 300-400 units of blood daily and that they will charge Rs.300/- (for testing and storing?) for every unit that they supply. They also said that immediately after drawing blood, they separate out plasma, platelets and red-cells as each of these have different shelf-life...plasma (5 days), platelets (1 year) and red cells (35 days).
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