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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Iranian spokesman for its top military command says armed forces will fight 'until complete victory'
Dubai (AP): The spokesman of Iran's top military command said on Tuesday that its armed forces will fight “until complete victory.”
The comments by Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi of the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters appeared to be related to US President Donald Trump's announcement that there were negotiations ongoing between Tehran and Washington.
Iran has denied that any talks areAli Abdollahi Aliabadi taking place, though its foreign minister has been talking to counterparts around the region.
Iranian state television quoted Aliabadi as saying: “Iran's powerful armed forces are proud, victorious and steadfast in defending Iran's integrity, and this path will continue until complete victory.”
The general did not say what “complete victory” would look like, but it appeared likely Iran's military was trying to warn against offering concessions in any possible negotiations with the United States.
