Deputy Commissioner K.V. Rajendra said here on Friday that there was a perceptible decline in the number of blood donors and the trend should be reversed. He was speaking at the 44th Foundation Say of Hemophilia Society which was also an occasion to create patient awareness among the public.
Dr. Rajendra said hemophilia patients require regular transfusion of blood but during the pandemic blood donation came to a halt. Besides, the blood requirement of healthy young individuals was increasingly hard to come by due to health issues plaguing lot of youngsters in the present times.