SMS is in . Just SMS to Donate.

Internet is not accessible by the common man. And a person needing blood for his relatives cannot run about to find an internet cafe to seach for blood donors in an emergency. This thought has been troubling me since long. We had made an attempt to connect the Database of Indianblooddonors.com with a Short Code (5676775 ) . This system worked quite well for about 6 months . Patients or their relative who had used the system wanted it back. We did not revive it due to some technical problems. The cost of sending an SMS to this number was quite high (Rs 3) . There were connectivity issue also. We had to also pay a yearly rental for the Short Code.

So we decided to have our own Long code (96655-00000) . We are working on the System where in Donors can register as blood donors by sending an SMS. And Patient or Relatives of patients needing blood can search for blood donors by sending an SMS.

We feel SMS is in . Web is out (For Blood Donation) . I really dont know. Only Time will tell.

Do your Karma.

I have been getting mails from people that they would like to donate blood to patients directly and not like to donate blood to hospitals/blood banks as there is commercial use. I tell them if they donate blood to a blood bank/hospital their blood will be transfused to a patient only. They will not make Gold or silver out of the blood and sell it.

So do your Karma. Let the Blood Banks/Hospitals do their Karma.

Mail from Mr Amit Kansal

Comments: Ten minutes ago my friend called me and asked for one unit of B+ blood for one of his colleagues hospitalized in Noida. I checked your website through google and put the request. I got an request id and contacted the person. He has agreed to donate the blood tomorrow. It was all done in ten minutes. I salute your commitment and initiative. May god bless you in all you do.
Amit Kansal
New Delhi
9818400667

Thank you Nagpur First.

We at IBD take this opportunity to thank Nagpur First for Sponsoring our Postage Stamps since the last one year. Mr Dinesh Jain and Mr Amit Badiyani were God Sent for IBD when they consented to give us Postage Stamps to send our Stickers (to create awareness) all over the country. A Big Thank you to all at Nagpur First for serving people without expectations. May their Tribe Increase.

Mail from Mr Mahender Kandpal

I want to thank Mr. Sunil Kumar Gupta, R/O Ghaziabad who donated Blood to Mr. J.P.Dabral at Kailash Hospital, Noida. I salute the spirit of Mr. Gupta. He has done such deed without any consideration. He did not bother about distance and waiting time for donation at hospital.
Mr. Dabral is no more but spirit of Mr. Gupta will be rememberd forever.
At last, I also congratulate your website (www.indianblooddonors.com) for helping the needy.
Mahendra Kandpal

Story about IBD on Rediff.com

http://getahead.rediff.com/report/2009/oct/20/this-man-saves-lives-one-click-at-a-time.htm

Mail from Mr Wangmo @ NDTV New Delhi

Thank you so much for your website. We needed one unit of blood for one of our office staff. I posted the requirement and one donor's name popped up. I contacted him and he donated his blood in a matter of few hours. I wanted to thank you and the donor for being so kind and thoughtful. The donors's name is Malikarjuna and he is based in Delhi.
Thank you so much, Malikarjuna.

Name: wangmo
City: new delhi

Mail from Dr Vedanth M.S. Mysore

Dear Khushroo,
This web site information has saved my uncle's life who has got o-ve blood group(very very rare).we got an information (indianblooddonors.com) about the donors of our own city(MYSORE) & donors helped a lot.

Thanking You, Yours faithfully,
Dr.Vedanth.M.S

Mail from Mr Shishir Gupta, Gurgaon

A few days ago, a friends mother needed blood. I remembered having read about such a website and googled it. Within minutes I had a donor. This was a memorable experience. I have now signed up as a donor.

Name: Shishir Gupta
City: Gurgaon

SMS to Donate.

Its been a long time since we have been planning to have a SMS based helpline. Where Blood Donors can register to donate blood by Sending an SMS to our helpline number .

Once a donor register we will send the mobile number of the Donor to a selected Blood Bank in every city, which promote Voluntory Blood Donation. They will contact the Donors and who in turn will donate blood at a blood Bank. The donors will get a Voluntory Blood donor Card which they will use when they need blood for the near an dear one. Please give your Suggestions .

Dainik Bhaskar

Chintan Siriya Star Coordinator of IBD wins Social Champ Award

Mr Chintan Siriya a Star Coordinator of IBD who ensures that a request for blood is never left unattended. And always help patients who need blood donors is awarded the Social Champ Award by the organisation he works for Cap Gemini. IBD is proud of you Chintan. Way to go. May you achieve much more in life. May you always help the needy. May all your Dreams come true . ;-) .

Mr Manish Mehta Joins Team IBD from Mumbai.

Mr Manish Mehta Joins Team IBD as a coordinator from Mumbai. He is in manufacturing of Garments and works as a volunteer in his community.

Real Heroes - Ashok Khatuja

It was a response to a personal challenge that later turned into a charity drive. Ashok Khatuja, 58, got involved with blood donations after his experience, as a worried father, trying to find blood donors for his son, who was suffering from thalassemia. The traffic inspector with Western Railway suddenly realised how difficult it was for some Mumbaiites to find blood donors. "Ravi needed 12 bottles year early on. Later as he grew, he needed three bottles a month. He passed away in December 2004, at the age of 24 years. But those years of 24 years. But those years helped me see the problems of other parents whose children are suffering from similar diseases," Khatuja says.In March 1987, he organised his first blood donation camp at Dadar railway station, for St George Hospital, specifically to help thalassemic children. "From that camp, we collected 300 bottles,"Khatuja remembers. Having joined the railways in November 1971 as a train clerk, Khatuja earlier organised camps with organisations that work for the welfare of children suffering from thalassemia. But four years ago, he formed his own group called the Western Railway Social Service Group with the support of then general manager MZ Ansari. "Our first camp was organised on April 7, 2005 and since then, we have organised more than 300 camps and collected 25,000 bottles of blood. Earlier, we would collect about 2,000 bottles every year but for the past three years, we've been collecting 5,000 bottles a year," he says, adding that he enjoys tremendous support from senior officers, deputy chief operations manager SK Jha who is the group's president.The group's work has led to several staffers of the railway becoming regular donors, including Chief commercial manager NC Sinha and senior medical officer Dr Uma Jindal."There are many blood donors who call me once every three months and ask where they can donate blood," Khatuja says, all praise for his co-workers and seniors. In fact, from across the country, railway officials not only appreciate his work but even call when blood has to be arranged in emergencies."A chief operations manager in Secunderabad once called requesting for help in arranging 14 bottles of blood for his wife who was getting a liver transplant. Similarly, three years ago, a station master in Ratlam needed 20 bottles since he was to undergo a bypass surgery."Khatuja has a word of caution too, advising that people should donate blood with the assurance that it will be for the use of a patient somewhere, rather than for sale to blood banks."I always conduct my camps for government units, where they give blood free to all blood donors and charge nondonors only Rs 425 a bottle. Some private units sell blood at Rs 2,000 a bottle or more."With a couple of years to go for retirement, Khatuja hopes to continue serving people in the memory of his son. "Because I know others need me too."

10000 Stickers Donated by Mrs Varsha Manohar

We take this opportunity to thank Mrs Varsha Manohar from Nagpur who comes to our rescue whenever we needs stickers. Though i personally feel very bad to ask her for help again and again. Somehow she comes to know about it and helps us. These stickers are being pasted by people all over the country. So many people who have seen these stickers in Hospitals and Blood Banks on cars and other public places have benefitted when they needed blood for a near and dear one. In a way she has been instrumental in saving many lives all over the country.

IBD on BBC World Radio Service : Should you get paid for your blood, sperm or eggs ?

A panel discussion was held on BBC world Radio Service in UK. Indianblooddonors.com was part of the panel dicussion. People from all over the world took part in it. The discussion was Should you get paid for your blood, sperm or eggs ?

Our Stand was Blood Donors should not be renumerated. Blood should be donated free as it is the Gift of Life. We felt the Government was doing little to create an awareness about blood donation. It should do more.

Networking for a Cause : To save ones Life.- DNA Mumbai

Kindly Tag me with a Patient Needing Regular Transfusion.

I got a mail from Mr BSK Reddy Chief Conservator of Forests in Nagpur. This mail has given me an idea which can be a revolution for patients needing regular blood transfusions. He wrote.


Comments: My blood group is o- , registered as donor . Kindly tag me with any patient like Sicklecell and other such type of patients who need blood regularly at Nagpur. Willing to give blood four times in a year . Early response is appreciated.

I immediately contacted Mr Sampat Ramteke who is the president of the Sickle Cell Patients Association in Nagpur and asked him to give me details of any patient who needed O-ve.

Mr Ramanathan Iyer Joins Team IBD from Mumbai

Its Mr Ramanathan V Iyers Birthday today 3-7-09 . He said he would be happy if he could donate blood or platelets to any patient today. We asked him if he would like to serve people by coordinating request for blood donation. He agreed.

Mr Ravi Dutt donates Blood and Money to the patient.

Please refer my earlier post " Woh paise lenge kya ?" Where Our New Delhi Coordinator had been asked to help a lady in Distress who had nobody to help her . Today Mr Ravi Dutt not only donated blood to her but also gave her money for her Ambulance so that she could take her father to Nainital. God Bless you Mr Ravi Dutt and may your tribe increase.

Mr Bhanu Prakash Vadlakonda from Hyderabad joins Team IBD

Mr Bhanu Prakash Vadlakonda from Hyderabad joins Team IBD to handle enquiries and requests for Blood Donation . Mr Bhanu also volunteers for an organisation called Aasraa . He works for AT&T Hyderabad.

Mrs Ruksana Parveen Hussain being Honoured by Mr N.D.Tiwari

Mrs Ruksana Parveen Hussain a coordinator for IBD from Hyderabad being honoured with silver medal and Certification by the Hon Governor of AP- Mr Narayana Dutt Tiwari on 14th June 2009 World Blood Donor Day.

Woh Paise Lenge Kya ? Will they take money ?

I got a call today from a lady at about 14.30 hrs. She started by telling me that she needed blood . Her father was admitted at Maharaja Agresen Hospital New Delhi. She seemed to be very stressed out. She said i am in need of A+ve blood for my father. Please help me. I dont have any money to pay for the blood . I asked her not to worry . I told her that i would arrange for the donor. She was pleading Sir please meri madat kijiye (Please help me), my mother is also admitted in a hospital in some other city. I am alone out here with nobody to help me. I took her cell number. I then posted a request with her details. I call up Dr Anurag Singh our volunteer who was busy. I then called up Mr Ravi Dutt who called me back. I immediately told Ravi to contact the lady and help her out. In 5 minutes flat Mr Ravi Dutt had spoken to the Hospital Authorities and asked them to give her blood. He told them as he was due for donation he would donate tomorrow morning. Mr Ravi Dutt confirmed with me. God bless you Ravi.

I called up the lady and asked her if she had got the unit of blood. She said yes. The then asked me "Woh Paise Lenge Kya ? Will they take money ? (i.e. the Donor Mr Ravi Dutt). I told her no he will not. She Thanked me.

I have been hearing the question everytime somebody calls me for blood . They are all surprised when i tell them that you dont have to pay anything . The services of IBD, our donors, our volunteers is free of cost and always will be.....

History of Blood

A Roman doctor name Galen believed that blood was formed in the liver and was unaware that the heart pumped blood through the arteries and veins. It wasn't until the 1600's that it was discovered blood circulates throughout the body, pumped by the heart.

Conditions for Donation of Blood

Conditions for donation of blood :
( 1) General -No person shall donate blood and no blood bank shall draw blood from a person, more than once in three months. The donor shall be in good health, mentally alert and physically fit and shall not be inmates of jail, persons having multiple sex partners and drug-addicts. The donors shall fulfill the following requirements, namely :-
(a) the donor shall be in the age group of 18 to 60 years.
(b) the donor shall not be less than 45 kilograms;
(c) temperature and Pulse of the donor shall be normal;
(d) the systolic and diastolic blood pressures are within normal limits without medication;
(e) haemoglobin which shall not be less than 12.5 grams;
(f) the donor shall be free from acute respiratory diseases;
(g) the donor shall be free from any skin diseases at the site of phlebotomy ;
(h) the donor shall be free from any disease transmissible by blood transfusion, insofar as can be determined by history and examination indicated above;
(i) the arms and forearms of the donor shall be free from skin punctures or scars indicative of professional blood donors or addiction of self injected narcotics

Additional Qualifications of a Donor

Additional qualifications of a donor :-No person shall donate blood, and no blood bank shall draw blood from a donor, in the conditions mentioned in column (1) of the Table given below before the expiry of the period of deferment mentioned in the column (2) of the said Table.
Table: Deferment of blood donation

CONDITIONS PERIOD OF DEFERMENT
(1) (2)

(a) Abortions 6 months
(b) History of Blood transfusion 6 months
(c) Surgery 12 months
(d) Typhoid 12 months after recovery
(e) History of Malaria and 3 months (endemic)
duly treated 3 years (non endemic area)
(f) Tattoo 6 months
(h) Breast feeding 12 months after delivery
(i) Immunization (Cholera, 15 days
Typhoid, Diphtheria,
Tetanus, Plague,
Gammaglobulin)
(j) Rabies vaccination 1 year after vaccination
(k) History of Hepatitis in 12 months
family or close contact
(l) Immunoglobulin 12 months.

You cannot donate blood if...

No person shall donate blood and no brood bank shall draw blood from a person, suffering from any of the diseases mentioned below, namely .-
a. Cancer
b. Heart disease
c. Abnormal bleeding tendencies
d. Unexplained weight loss
e. Diabetes-controlled on Insulin
f. Hepatitis infection
g. Chronic nephritis
h. Signs and symptoms, suggestive of AIDS
i. Liver disease
j. Tuberculosis
k. Polycythemia Vera
l. Asthma
m. Epilepsy
n. Leprosy
o. Schizophrenia
p. Endocrine disorders

Mail from Mrs Irene Arathi Stanley New Delhi

Comments: Dear web hosters and every Donor enlisted with you, my family joins me in thanking your volunteer and noble service to humanity. At 3 am on a Sunday early morning when we were wonderign where to look out for B-ve blood, we found solution through this website.
I would like to place on records the two donors Ramya Sivasankar and Irayya who received calls in teh wee hours and came forward and made the blood donation to my sister in law who by Gods grace and generosity of the two donors is a mothr to a baby girl she delivered around 6.30 am today.
Happy to b part of a caring world you and your donors are creating...

Name: Irene arathi Stanley
Address: No. 1, Red Cross Road
City: new delhi
Country: India
Phone / Mobile: 9810399633

Mrs Ruksana Parveen Hussain from Hyderabad Joins team IBD.

Mrs Ruksana Parveen Hussain from Hyderabad joins team IBD as a coordinator . She works for TCS and is the Receipent of the Governors Silver Medal for Motivating the maximum blood donors in 2007-08.

Mr Jatin Sablok Paste Stickers on Autos in Mumbai

Dear Khushroo,
Would like to narrate an incident that happened today morning –

I was posting a sticker as I was getting out of AutoRickshaw post reaching my destination (office) in the morning. The Autowalla asked, "saab ispe kya likha hai". I replied "rakt/khoon daan karne ke liye or uski zarrorat padne par .... is jagah contact karne ke liye likha hai..."

"Saab isme koi number hota aur hindi mein hota toh mujhe bhi samajh aata" replied the AutoWala. Aur saab ye sab kaam karne ka hota hai - ye toh maaloom hai ..magar kaise karne kaa, kahan jaane kaa - kuch maalloom nahin" continued the AutoWalla. Further the conversation continued and he said that he will visit a hospital this week to donate blood.

Moral of the story is – the concern for society can be found at every rank and irrespective of stature. The need is for awareness and personal influence to probe/ help other fellow men to take decision to go to hospital to donate blood.

Also, if AutoWallas can successfully spread the message of No Tobacco then why can’t Yes! Blood Donation….

If 100 stickers on Autos can lead to only 1 person taking decision – The Job is Done.

We should influence 1 person every month from our family and friend circle to donate blood and if possible accompany him/her to donation point (this really works), we can save many lives one at a time. Most of us know its safe and its is good – but either we postpone or we give it a least priority in our daily schedule.

Regards
Jatin Sablok

Khoon Baha Nali Mein - खून बहा नाली में !

http://www.patrika.com/news.aspx?id=190243

Blood Being Sold at a Premium - नाक तले "खूनी" कारोबार

http://www.patrika.com/news.aspx?id=189633

What is said about giving .

"Give such that the left hand does not know what the right hand gave". The highest form of giving, or Charity "DAAN", is one that is selfless, humble, and without expectations of glory or reward.
At IBD , we encourage you to Donate Blood without any expectations of glory or reward.

Mrs Meenakshi Chellam Joins Team IBD from Goa

Mrs Meenakshi Chellam joins Team IBD as a coordinator from Goa. She has been associated with IBD since the last 5 years. May her Tribe Increase. She recently coordinated a Blood Donation for a Friend who's father needed blood in New Delhi .

Ms Kavita , Mr Jitendra and Mr Nikit Donating Blood on World Blood Donor Day at Meerut

Mr Nikit Maheshwari

Mr Jitendra

Ms Kavita

Rishta Khoon Ka - Lokmat Samachar

I wanted to Bless you but now i will not Bless you !

3 requests were posted on IBD by a lady from Mumbai . Two requests were from O-ve and one request was for B-ve. When i checked up the request the email id of the person requesting the blood did not match with the person posting the request. Also the request were of Different Blood Groups. Seeing this i Blocked the request.

On blocking the request i got a call from the lady who had put the request. As is customary i asked her a few questions to confirm if the request was authenticate and what was the Blood Group needed. After a few question the lady got angry as to why i was wasting her time asking foolish questions. In a split second she was angry at me . I asked her to cool down and was trying to tell her why we have to be careful with Negative Blood Group request.

She was not ready to listen to me and so i disconnected the call. She again called me up and repremanded me for disconnecting the call. She tells me why i had built the network of donors if we are not ready to help. I again tried to calm her down . She then told me That I want to bless the person who had made this network But now i will not Bless you. I told her that i did not need her blessing and she should not bless me. She disconnected the call .

I called up the contact number given in her request. She picked up the call. I then took the lead in speaking to her and did not let her speak. Lest she again lead the tirade against me. I then told her that how Negative Blood Groups are sold at a premium by some unscrupulous elements. That seemed to cool her down. I told her that i had unblocked her request. She can use the helpline. I kept on monitoring her request.

In and hour and a half she got the required 5 donors of B-ve Blood group. After which she sent us a mail thanking the people behind the cause.

Madam did you bless us ?

Mr Sandeep Samnani from Jabalpur Says.....

Blood is like knowledge which increases day by day .......

Mail from Mr Shashank Bhavsar

Thanks very much this is the 3rd time You & you blood donors have helped me for blood donations. Thank u once again & ur donors - this time the donors who donate blood are -1) pranjal wagh 2) manish sharma 3) vaibhav mehta 4) hemant .

Name: Shashank Bhavsar
City: MUMBAI
Phone / Mobile: 9869252360

Mail from Ms Meenakshi Chellam

I've signed up as a donor here - a long time ago, but this is the first time that I used the site to find blood for a friend. And afterthe experience that i just had, i feel so proud and privileged to be associated with this endeavour. I ran into a problem and called Anurag Singh in Delhi. And the response and help was instantaneous. Thank you Anurag. And thank you Khushroo, Fermin. God Bless you guys!
Name: Meenakshi Chellam
Address: Hse No 599 Socoilo Waddo Bodiem, Thivim City: Goa
Country: India Phone / Mobile: 9823287298

Mail from Mr Sundeep Bhatia

Dear Khushroo & Fermin,

First things first....thank you so much. My wife is AB- and I must have tried a dozen blood banks for blood but was surprised that some of the best names did not have blood. I had registered with you some while ago. After much disappointment I logged on to your site and was thrilled when I got details of donors and above all when I got in touch with them, they agreed.

Thanks again..Regards,
Sundeep Bhatia
Mumbai
9821017996

Its illegal to ask for Blood Donation in UAE ?

Reseach by Mr Joel Lehmann on SMS use on IBD:

Mr Joel Lehmann, Research Assistant, M.A. , Institute of Communication and Health, Faculty of Communication Sciences , University of Lugano , Switzerland personal Profile is doing a Research on the SMS technology used in Indianblooddonors.com .

Pursuit of Goodness by Vijayendra Haryal

I met Mr Vijayendra Haryal the author of this book on my visit to IIM Ahmedabad. He was the organiser and Brains behind the "Social Entrepreneurs " fair where we were invited to speak about IBD. He is also the founder of http://www.volstreet.com/ . We at indianblooddonors.com are deeply touched for being made a part of this book. This book can be bought at www.pothi.com .

Mr Abhisek Tripathi Joins Team IBD from Pune

Dear Mr. Poacha,
I am working with a software company in Pune. I keep shuttling between Noida and Pune as my mother is being treated there.My native place is Kanpur.I have been monitoring IBD for requests of blood, but to my surprise I haven't seen a single request being raised in Pune for thesame in the last few days. Wondering why is that so? Guess the blood banks conduct blood donation drives more frequently than what is being done in other cities. Also a fact that there is so much youth who is self motivated to donate blood might be a reason too. But I was happy to see over 1700 donors registered in IBD from Pune. Quite a large number as compared to other IT hubs like Noida. Wish more and more donors register elsewhere too. I have already forwarded the URL to many of friends for registering in IBD. Just hoping that everyone does :).Thanks Mr. Poacha again for creating IBD.
Warm regards,

Abhisek Tripathi.

Mail from Abhisek Tripathi

Hi, I am so grateful to this site for helping me find the donors for my mom who's being treated for ALL in Noida. Mr Tanmay Shankar Nath consented for apheresis. He turned up for the same and helped us. I wish to join the team IBD, and would put my endeavours to help people in Pune by arranging them my blood products or helping them find a donor. Please do consider my wish.
I wish all the people on IBD all the best. Wish we grow in our endeavors.

Thanks Mr. and Mrs Poacha for materializing this noble thought of yours.

Warm regards

Abhisek Tripathi

Mail from Abhisek Tripathi

Comments: Hi, I am so grateful to this site for helping me find the donors for my mom who's being treated for ALL in Noida. Mr Tanmay Shankar Nath consented for apheresis. He turned up for the same and helped us. I wish to join the team IBD, and would put my endeavours to help people in Pune by arranging them my blood products or helping them find a donor. Please do consider my wish.
I wish all the people on IBD all the best. Wish we grow in our endeavors.
Thanks Mr. and Mrs Poacha for materializing this noble thought of yours.
Warm regards

Mail from Dr Anurag Singh

Dear Sir,
Firstly, I would like to thank you for the tremendous oppurtunity of service that you have provided to me and others in the whole world. Every time I help someone for arranging blood or platelets, I feel as if I am serving God in some way and that my BAD KARMAS are getting neutralised one by one.
1. There was a liver transplant patient in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Mr Masood Rizvi. He needed 15 units of B- whole blood and 7 units of B+ platelets for his surgery. Initially, his surgery was postponed as his family could arrange only 5 units of B- whole blood and 1 unit of platelets. They has donated 10 units of whole blood of other blood groups but at the last moment the blood bank intimated to them that they would not be provided B- whole blood on replacement. At that stage I was contacted by Dr AS Soin, the transplant surgeon, for helping them, as they had no contacts in New Delhi (they are from Karachi). With the blessings of God and the help of the site www.indianblooddonors.com I was able to arrange for all the units of platelets and whole blood that were required and thereafter the surgery was done successfully. THIS IS A REAL EXAMPLE OF HOW THE SITE HAS BEEN USED TO DIRECTLY SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE. I feel blessed that God has enabled me and has put me in this position to help others.
2. There was another case of Ms Jyoti Kathuria. She is alone in her family, along with her father. They are not computer savy. She needed to undergo a surgery in AIIMS, New Delhi. Someone told them about the site and just registered for them, but did not follow up with the donors. They saw my number on the website and called me for help. I immediately understood their family's situation and arranged the necessary blood donations for them. Again, I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THIS IS A REAL EXAMPLE OF THE HELP THAT GOD HAS ENABLED US AND BLESSED US TO PROVIDE TO PEOPLE IN GENUINE NEED.
IN BOTH THE ABOVEE CASES, THE SURGERIES WOULD HAVE BEEN NIT CARRIED OUT HAD BLOOD NOT BEEN ARRANGED FOR THEM.
Thank you God and thank you IndianBloodDonors for giving me this oppurtunity to neutralise my bad karma's in life.

Ms Micky Priya joins Team IBD from Mumbai

Ms Micky Priya had registered as a donor on IBD. She got a call from a Patients Relative Admitted in Tata Memorial for platelet donation. As she was not in a position to donate blood. She consented to help the patient by coordinating with other blood donors. She coordinated with a few donors and helped the patient .

Mr KRa.Senthillnathan joins Team IBD from Tirupur

Mr KRa. Senthillnathan joints Team IBD from Tirupur to help people who need blood in Tirupur. He is also the Secretary of a Trust 1008 Winners . http://1008winners.blogspot.com/ .

SMS From Alia Saeed New Delhi

Platelets and blood donations were arranged and my grandmother was discharged yesterday . Thanks a lot for you support. The Website has been a lifesaver.Pl carry on the good work.

Regards Alia

SMS sent to our Delhi Volunteer Dr Anurag Singh.

Feedback from Manisha Mevawala Mumbai

I had contacted Mr. Shailesh Gupta and Mr. Krishnan PV on 17th April morning and they revertered immediately and donated B -ve blood for my Mother at Asian Heart on the same day. Thank u very much to u all. I wanted to give this feedback.
Name: Manisha Mevawalla
Address: Ghatkopar ,Mumbai
Phone / Mobile: 98203 22779

Dr Anurag Singh from Delhi Joins Team IBD

Dr Anurag Singh from New Delhi who had used the services of Indianblooddonors.com has consented to join Team IBD and help people who need blood in New Delhi.

Mrs Sarita Nagabhushan from Mysore Joins Team IBD

Mrs Sarita Nagabhushan from Mysore joins team IBD as a volunteer for Mysore . She was using the services of IBD to help a patient who needed blood . We contacted her if she would help other patients in her city Mysore. She is also a Animal Rights Activist.

Mail from Savitha Nagabhushan

Thank you. This site was extremely helpful when I had to arrange blood for a cancer patient at short notice that too for ten units. This site is a life saving and extremely useful site . If this site can cater to two tier and smaller towns we don't have to look any where else for life saving precious blood.
Thanks again regards .
Savitha.
Blood Request id 28564.

Mail from Mr A.B. Surendranath

A Noble Service rendered with utmost dedication and professionalism. May God bless you and guide you in your humane endeavour.

Name: A.B. Surendranath Address: 57, 3rd Street,
R.V.Nagar, Kodungaiyur City: Chennai - 600 118
Phone / Mobile: (044) 25553754 / 9444506753

www.justdial.com - Link to IBD

www.indg.in - Link to IBD

Yeh dil mange more.

There are many NGOs in India , doing good work which needs creating awarness. Indianblooddonors.com will help by putting Banner Advertisement on our site and links on our Blogs. We want to help as many people as we can. Yeh dil mange more.

Donating Voluntary Blood Donor Cards.

Mr Vivek Satyawadi from Faridabad sent us a mail and came up with a very nice concept. He wants voluntory blood donors registered on our site to donate their Voluntory Blood Donation Cards which they get from the Blood Banks to the patients who need blood. The patients can get these cards and get the required blood from the Blood Banks. Its a wonderful idea.

We need to work on this. Thank you Mr Vivek Satyawadi. May your tribe Increase. We would like more and more people to come up with such ideas to improve upon the services of IBD.

Case Study of Indianblooddonors.com

Digital Empowerment Foundation is coming up with a 'Case Study Book' featuring few projects making use of e content under various categories: health, education, government, youth, business, localization and mobile content.

As a Manthan awardee, Indianblooddonors.com is one of the projects they have chosen to study.

DEF wants that this case study book will give exposure to Indianblooddonors.com and will bring to light the various issues at stake in bridging the digital divide and raise concern over what are the challenges projects like ours face.

A beautiful post about IBD on a Blog by Jatin Patni

Here are the top sites that I recommend:-
1.Indian Blood Donors :- Myself being a regular blood donor find this website very important to feel occasional moments of pride and selfless joy…Neutralize my bad karma 1 unit at a time :)….You should register here as a Donor.

IBD 2009 (Today) Web 2.0 Technology (You use it you maintain it)

IBD Jan 2008 (This version was SMS Enabled)

IBD 2006

IBD in 2005

IBD In 2001

Way back in 2000 IBD looked like this.

Patients son get 16 Donors of O-ve in New Delhi from IBD Database in 1 hour.

Dr Singh needed 20 unit of Blood of the Blood Group O-ve in New Delhi for his fathers Liver Transplant. The Blood was to be donated at Gangaram Hospital. Dr Singh Posted a request on IBD. In the Request form we ask the patient relatives as to how many donors are needed. Mr Singh had posted 10 donors. After 3-4 donors had consented to donate blood for the patient we blocked the request as we are quite careful when Negative Blood Groups are required , as we had caught a leading hospital who were using our site to replinish their stocks. Dr Singh called me and told me that he needed 20 unit of blood. We unblocked his request and he started contacting the donors. We were not sure if he would get 20 donors of this group from our site as this is a very rare blood group . Though we had 38 donors in this group in New Delhi who at that point of time were valid donors.
When i checked up his statistics after an hour i was surprised that 16 + donors had consented to donate blood for his fathers liver transplant.
We have posted this entry in Awards as this is our real Award.

Thank you for keeping Humanity Alive

Dear Founders ( Mr Pochas & Associates )
GooD Morning !
This is with reference to our tele discussion a couple of days back during my father's hospital visit.
First Things First ! My Heartfelt gratitutde to you and to your entire team who helps you put up such a beautiful Easy to access website based Process to do the biggest Charity a Human being can selflessly Do ! i.e To save Life.
I have been utilising your services since my Elder Sister ( Doctor By Profession ) show me your print Advt and my Grand mother was sick. Thanks to your Hardwork, & Commitment to this cause ,i was able to get 4 out of 8-9 donors i contacted.
It was an experience of my lifetime so far as i thought this materialistic world is now full of inhumans rather than God's best creature - Humans ! All the Donors ( except a few exceptions ) i could contact were more than willing to come and donate blood for a stranger as if it was one of their Humanly duties asked by the super power. Some of them took Special leave or travelled 60 kms on self conveyance to help me & my grandmother who were completely stranger to them.
In today's fast paced Luxorius selfish world ,Hardly do we ever see a person doing something so selflessly for a complete stranger !
Okay Coming to the other reason of writing to you ! For this noble Human Cause I would like to understand your organisation's consensus if xxxxxxl can spread information about your website and provide mutual benefit to everyone including our dear customers. To take this forward , post your official confirmation we will take this up with the concerned officials at our end to inform our customers accordingly.
Looking ahead to your response to take this forward. You may write back on my official ID manojku.gupta@xxxxxxl.in or call me at 9810772396
Thanks for keeping Humanity Alive . . .
Manoj Gupta
Marketing Manager
xxxxxx xxxxxx Limited - Delhi Circle,Corporate Office.

Mail from Mr David Praveen , Hyderabad

It is very very good website, and helped us a lot, we really appreciate you for your service. .
Name: David Praveen
Address: Flat No 305 , Sri Trumalat Owners Revenue Board Colony
City: Hyderabad
Country: India
Phone / Mobile: 9866685848

Rs 3500/- for a unit of Blood in Mumbai

I got a call from a lady in Mumbai (Mrs Survey) that she needed 4 donors of any Blood Group. I asked her the Blood Group of the Patient. She said she herself was the Patient and her Blood Group was A+ve . She wanted 4 donors to donate blood in lieu of the blood taken from the Blood Bank. I told her that we do not encourage replacement as the blood has already been given to the donor. She said please help me as the Blood Bank has taken a Deposit of Rs 14000/-. And will only return Rs 5000/- if we give the donors. The blood bank in question is a leading Private Blood Bank in Mumbai.

What must be happening to patients who have No Money to pay up ? God Help them.

Feedback from Mr Avik Mandal

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this tremondous effort for providing this mammoth information about donors. An effort truely worth life saving. On 20.1.09 I posted a request ID - 26422 for A+ve Blood which I require on 30.1.09 . I got the name of the Donor within a few minutes , The donors name is Mansi . So Far she has agreed to donate blood. But the thing is I couldnt update the feedback through the site. May be due to some technical reason . So I would request you to look into the matter ASAP and please update the Feedback on Mansi as she has agreed to donate blood.
Avik Mandal Address:
FLAT 2B,26/12.D.P.P.ROAD,
Naktala
Kolkata.

Family members should donate blood first.

Dear Sir / Madam,

This happened last time I donated Blood.I got a call from a patient's relative for Donation of (O+ve) blood12 units for By Pass surgery. The doctor had asked for fresh blood & Platelets. As all my friends were extreamly busy on that day hence, I request the blood bank's incharge to make arangements to help us donate after the working hours of the Blood bank. The bood bank is in a reputed & Specialied hospital in Bandra, MUMBAI. He went out of his way to make arangements & took the permision from the respected departments & concerned persons at his risk & risking his Job. He also was there personally to do the needfull inspite his wife all alone at home suffering from High temperature. He asked his neighbour to take care of his wife at home. We were there at the blood bank as promised by 7 PM. Although I am (O-ve), I called up a few of my friends & arranged 10 units . On reaching the hospital I found both the sons & daughter in law of patient were strong & healthy around 25 to 30 years. I asked them to donate also & their reply was that we might get infected, week, lose our manhood & BlahBlah Blah as we were just married a few months ago & then their mother shouted on us saying You shoud do your job & if you dont want to donate why have you have you been registered on the donors list . We felt very bad at the family's behaviour & were about to leave without donating. Then to our saviour the Blood Bank incharge & the Surgeon who had overheard all our conversion asked us not to donate for such a people unless both the sons & both daughter in law present there with (O+ve) group which was required would donate first. He also called up the doctor who was suposed to do the surgery & informed him about the situation. The doctor finally convinced the family (After 1 hour of Convincing) to donate first otherwise he would not do the surgery & also he threatened to discharge the patient from the hospital without any treatment at the family's risk. Finally 4 of them + 8 of my Freinds with O +ve donated. This drama lasted for about 6 hours. I shall not name where in mumbai this had occured . My moto is to inform you this is because we would like the patients relative's in future to find donors from their family first & then when it is absolute necessary then ask the other donors listed on the website to donate. I think You will be able to take care of such a situation better & make the patient relatives realise the importance of donating bood themselves before taking help from the indianbloddonors.com site or any one else.Sorry if I have mentioned something curtly.Till today thinking about that situation I feel hurt, & feel sorry that such people also exist in today's modern age.

Regards,
Huzaifa Khambata

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Date of Birth.

We got a lot of feedback about taking "Date of Birth" from donors as a validation process that a Patients Relative has contacted a donor . Quite a few of our donors refused to divulge date of birth to unknow people, they said that date of birth is used for financial verification .

We respect our donors feedback and have agreed not to used "Donors Date of Birth" as a validation process.

We are grateful to our Donors like Mr Manish Keshwani, Mr Shrikant , Ramesh Anna, and other who are coming up with New Ideas to avoid misuse of Donors List.

Stickers.

Stickers of Indianblooddonors.com are over. The last set of 10,000 stickers were printed by Mrs Varsha Manohar. Hope to find a sponsor soon.

Suggestions from Ms Farah Bharucha

Dear Khushroo and Fermin,
Wish you too a Happy New Year. Also, I salute you for providing this service to people all over. It is indeed a noble service! Thank you! I would however, like to express my reservations against the system you have described below. I would like to understand why it is essential for the user (patient's relative/friend) to provide feedback? What sort of feedback are you expecting, and why do you need it? People need blood only in a time of crisis - and at this time it is not advisable to limit the user's access to the blood donor's database, till they have provided feedback. It is obvious that the users will not be in a state of mind to give appropriate feedback.

As an alternative, I suggest that you collect the user's phone number and/or email address and contact them a month or 2 months after they have come to the website for donors, and ask them for feedback at that time. Not allowing them to access the list of blood donor's in their time of need isn't quite practical, and prevents the website from serving its purpose. These are just my 2 cents :) hope you consider them.
Thanks,
Farah

Suggestion from Mr Ajit Menon

Hello Khushroo & Fermin Poacha,

And congratulations yet again on your wonderful initiative. While I understand the irritation that you may be experiencing about users not leaving proper feedback, and thus affecting the quality of the data available, does it make sense to make things more difficult for the patients or their relatives at a time when they would already be under stress? Also, on more than one occasion, I noticed that it was not the patient/familywho had done the browsing and locating but some helpful volunteer.... perhaps this could be the reason that the subsequent information is not being completed.

I regret that I do not have any constructive suggestion to help counter the above problem - perhaps by requesting the donors to come back and givefeedback? Wouldn't it be possible to setup an SMS-based mechanism to gather feedback, as most users and donors would have this.I also wish you the best of the season..... hope the year ahead is rewarding and fulfilling.

ajit menon

Suggestion from Dr Atul Adaniya

DOB is routinely used by credit card companies and banks for ID verifictaionon telephonic calls.I certainly would not at all be keen on sharing the same to any anonymousphone caller.You may think of another modality to identify, if this MISUSE is actuallysuch a big and un-handlabale issue.regards,

Dr Atul Adaniya
Sir H N Hospital & Research CentrePrathna SamajMumbai 400 004

Suggestion from Mr Ramesh Gopi

Dear Poacha:
I think your new plan is good. I have altogether donated blood 5 times through your website, but i have felt that the goodwill of blood donors are being exploited upon by people who need blood. They take websites like indianblooddonors to be a site that can be taken for granted and are thankless after they get blood.

I suggest we need to get any next of kin of every blood needer to register in your site and use the details to donate blood at any place before they want blood through indianblooddonors.com. We should not route blood unless any next of kin has also donated blood. Let us not cater to exploitative selfish needs of blood needers who never care to donate blood.

I say we should promote "Receive blood only if you can donate blood" policy.
Warm regards and happy new year wishes to you, your family, and staff.

Jai Hind.
r€m€sh G°þï
"Go with your heart, go with your passion"

Suggestion about New System from Mr Ajit Limaye

Hi,

While I understand that the feature you have introduced may not been used by users for feedback, I do not support publishing my or anyone else's date of birth on a website. A date of birth is used most of the times for identifying one for financial transactions such as credit card balances and verifications at bank as well as immigration related formalities. Instead of the date of birth, you can introduce a donor id as a required field and then proceed with the same procedure as earlier. I hope it helps.

Thanks,
Ajit Limaye
Assistant Manager
Regulatory & Capital Markets Consulting
D&T AERS India Pvt. Ltd.
www.deloitte.com

Happy New Year - 2009

Dear Indian Blood Donors,

We at Indianblooddonors.com take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. We sincerely thank you for saving lives of patients by donating blood.

In the last few months we have introduced a new system in which it is a practice that the user (patients relative/friend) posts a request for blood on our website, each user is given a request id number using which he/she can access the database of the donors. The procedure requests the user to call the donor, give the feedback through the website and only after the feedback is selected can the user get another donor.

However it has come to our notice that many people are not utilizing this facility properly. Instead of calling the donors they are just coping the donors contact details giving wrong feedback and move ahead. To avoid this misuse coming January 2009 we will ask the patients relative to enter your(donor`s) -Date of Birth- . So we request you donors to give your Date of Birth when a patients relative contacts you for blood donation . If your Date of Birth tallies with the one you have entered while registering your profile we will give the next donors name and telephone number to the relative who need donors. We are open to suggestions for improvement of the helpline.

Best Wishes
Khushroo & Fermin Poacha
Founders
Indianblooddonors.com

Mail from Mr Ravinder Iqbal Singh

Comments: Thank you for the timely help. god bless you all & may your organisation flourish & continue to serve humanity. all the best.
Name: Ravinder Iqbal Singh Address: 80, Sector 27A,
City: Chandigarh
Country: India
Phone / Mobile: 9915528027

Mail from Mr K Narayanaswamy

Comments: While trying for donor through your valuable website I could get hold one of my friend for donation. Of the 5 donors I tried two had donated recently while the others were out of station or could not be contacted. The site is more valuable and useful and I appreciate the wonderful effort. Should there be any further need I will access the same. I place on record the excellent contribution of your organisation and the Donors.
Name: K Narayanaswamy
Address: 224 Nehru Street
City: Coimbatore
Country: India
Phone / Mobile: 93605 55446

www.connectedindians.com - They link to IBD

Blood Needed for Terrorist Attack Victims in Mumbai

Blood is needed for Victims of the Terrorist Attack in Mumbai. Mumbai Blood Donors should donate blood at the following Hospitals.

J.J.Hospital 23739400
Bombay Hospital 22067676 Extn 216
St George Hospital 22620344

Indianblooddonors.com has alerted all our Mumbai Blood Donors by SMS to donate blood at the following Hospitals.

Mr Ashish donating Platelets

Mr Ashish a Voluntory Blood Donor registered on Indianblooddonors.com donating platelets for a patient.

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Mail from Mr Ramesh

Your website was very user friendly earlier and now people have to spend a lot of time to get the list of donors in a city ( if they can!!!)Why complicated the stuff? Think like a user. A person in need of bloodnow have to register and then use some password to contact donors?I wish you simplify.I am regular blood donor and used to recommend your site. Now I myself do not know how can one reach me if them want my blood !! All the best
Name: Mr Ramesh
Address: 23, BHEL Officers colony, Nandini layout
City: Bangalore
Phone / Mobile: 9845213042

Our Reply to Mr Ramesh.

Dear Mr Ramesh,
Thank you for your feedback. We work in the best interest of our Blood Donors, Patients and humanity at large. If our systems were so lengthy and cumbersome people would not use our site.
We also want our site to be user friendly but at the same time we do not want misuse of our database of blood donors.
Best Wishes
Khushroo Poacha
Founder

Mail from Mr Dev Ranjan Das

Dear Sir

This is a wonderful concept. I got the donor within 5 minutes. Thanks for that. I would like to volunteer. Let me know how I can volunteer. I can also mobilize people around to volunteer. I had this idea that its important to verify the phone numbers and other details. It would be useful if you mail a list of donors to a volunteer and ask him to verify the details of these donors in his city. This can be sent as frequently as he wants. Please ignore it if you are already working with the idea.

Name: Dev Ranjan Das

Address: 513, Nilgiri, Anushaktinagar

City: Mumbai Country: India

Phone / Mobile: 9322436095

Mr Ravi Dutt New Delhi.

Mr Ravi Dutt was surfing a VSNL website when he first got his internet connection in 2001. There he got a list of important websites where indianblooddonors.com was one of them. He immediately logged on and registered on the website. Then there were quite a few blood donors on the site. He started donated blood since 1989 when his aunt in his family needed blood. Being of sound health he started donating the gift of life regularly every three months.

Once he went to donate platelets for a friends daughter who was 5 years old at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute which is located close to his residence. When he saw the plight of young children who needed blood he was moved and decided with his group of friends to donate blood and platelets to these children whenever the need arised.

Quite often Mr Ravi Dutt would ask us to send him stickers to create awareness about the helpline in New Delhi. He started helping patients in New Delhi and Noida by logging on to IBD and contacting donors and helpling out patients who did not have access to the net. Many a times when he would be eligible to donate blood he would log on to IBD and check out the Home page to see if there were any request for B+ve blood group.

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Mail from Mr Chandramohan , Bangalore

Dear Sir / Madam,
Ref.My blood request id's are 21865, 21866, We are thankful to the Founders of Indianblooddonors.com for helping patients with great intentional heart. we got the blood of "A negative" we met two good hearted doners through Indianblooddonors.com.
Thank you very much once again for giving this kind of support throughout INDIA.
Regards,
Chandramohan
+91 9789974947

Mr Varun Rana From Jalandhar says .

Whenever you donate blood you will find yourself more satisified . So make it a habit ( to donate blood regularly).

Name: Varun Rana
Address: House No. 43, 1st floor, chotti baradari, near taj,garha road
City: Jalandhar
Phone / Mobile: 9878611013

Mail from Ribhu Nath Lavania

Reference blood request id 21672. I had already talked to two of the donors recommended from your site and they have agreed to donate blood for my father.Please accept my grateful thanks!May God Bless you!
Ribhu Nath Lavania
Address: 171, Himgiri Apartments,
City: Noida
Phone / Mobile: 9873009984

Youtube Video of Platelets Donation by NADEEM SHAMSI

Mr Nadeem Shamsi a blood donor on Indianblooddonors.com sent us this video clip on Youtube where he is seen donation platelets for a patient in New Delhi.

Mail from Mr Nadeem Shamsi

Comments: Its really A great Job ! I was in Apollo Hospital,Delhi on 29th May 2008, My mother needs A+ Platelets I try to search on Net and I got http://www.blogger.com/www.Indianblooddonors.com when I try to search Blood and Apheresis Donors I got few and good donors, I decided to be a donor myself because I donate my whole blood on 17th May so was unable to donate my platelets to my mother, now I donate my own platelets of A+ve 7 times from 21st Aug 2008 to 28th Oct 2008, Now tommorow I will donate again !

Name: NADEEM E. SHAMSI
Address: FAIZ GUNJ,
City: MORADABAD-UP
Country: INDIA
Phone / Mobile: 91 94122 40772

Mail from Mr Atiq Chaudhary

I am very thankful to Mr. H.M. Kamath who provide me life in very critical situation when my wife was in hospital and struggling with her life. This site and group realy doing well for human service. I salute you and your service for humanity.

Name: Atiq Chaudhary
Address: A-512/1, Mandavali, Fazalpur
City: Delhi
Country: India
Phone / Mobile: 9810444990

SMS from Nyi Nyi Zaw - 9717123865

We are finding blood donors daily because my mother is liver transplant patient and her liver is now not fully functioning. So she needs to get 2 Apheresis (Platelets) Daily. You can trace us in Liver ICU 011-42252508. My Mothers Name is San San R.No 461011 . We thank Indianblooddonors.com very much.

Nyi Nyi Zaw from Burma
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A few days back during my routine check of the requests posted on the site , i came across this request. When i saw the patients name and the Relatives name, i thought somebody was posting fake requests and contacting the donors. I anticipated some misuse. I immediately traced the Patients relative as a few donors had already donated blood the patients. I then came to know that the patient was not from India. After a few days the Patients Son Nyi Nyi sent me an sms telling me that they were from Burma and had nobody who could help them..