Coronavirus: State faces shortage of blood, Red Cross Society to collect blood from healthy donors
Bengaluru: The Indian Red Cross Society has instructed that blood units should be collected from healthy blood donors by taking appropriate precautions to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection.
The Karnataka Red Cross Society collects more than 3,500 units monthly, and distributes over five thousand units to blood banks in the state, government and non-government hospitals in Bengaluru for the patients of anemia, pregnant women, thalassemia, dialysis, cancer, emergency surgery and others. Blood donations have almost stopped owing to the total lockdown in the country, resulting in an acute shortage of blood supply in the state.
There is no alternative to blood. It is only possible from blood donors to meet this blood requirement. Thus blood collection of more than 3,500 units per month is inevitable. Currently, the Karnataka Red Cross Blood Bank, the State Branch of the Indian Red Cross, has only 50 units of blood in the Bengaluru Blood Bank, which has increased pressure on it. Every day there is a demand of more than a hundred blood units. Blood donors must voluntarily come forward for blood donation, Red Cross Society appealed.
Donors who want to volunteer can visit Red Cross Blood Bank, Karnataka No. 26, Red Cross Bhavan, 1st Floor, Racecourse Road, Bengaluru-001 from 9 am to 6 pm. Those who donate blood will be given a pass in the wake of the lockdown. For further details, call on to 9035068435, 9902859859, and 9980537678; a release from Red Cross Society urged.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
