l am this tuesday donate blood. my responsibility for being an indian citizen, blood can save other ‘lives by donating’ “Every day 12,000 people in India die due to the sheer lack of donated blood. India collects 11 million units of blood but needs 15 million units, so there’s a deficit of 4 million units. Over 40 districts in India don’t have a single blood bank. So we want to motivate 1 million people – not through marketing but word-of-mouth – to donate at least once or twice a year to bridge this gap, and penetrate through remotest parts of India,” says Kiran Verma, the East Delhi-based Founder of Change One Foundation that started ‘Simply Blood’ – India’s first virtual blood donation app. The 35-year-old explains on his Linkedin bio that he’s “…on a mission to end any kind of death due to lack of blood in India by 2025 and provide last-mile support using Simply Blood….”
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