The Times of India, The Economics Time zee news Apr 24, 2017, India
No coordination between blood banks and hospitals, 6 lakh litres of blood wasted in five years.
New Delhi: Indicating that there is serious gaps in the country’s blood banking system, over 28 lakh units of blood and its components were wasted in five years by banks across India, as per a report.
India, with its population of 1.2 billion people, requires 12 million units of blood annually, however, only nine million units are collected every year. The country faces a blood shortage of three million units. It is said that NCR alone faces a shortage of 1,00,000 units per year.
खून की कमी से,
लोग मर जाते हैं,
कितने इसे खरीद नहीं पाते,
और हम बड़ी-बड़ी बातें करते हैं,
पर बड़ी-बड़ी बातों का मूल क्या है ?
हमें संभालना तक नहीं आता है
किसी ने कहा, इन खबरों को
दिल पर ना ले।
यह नासमझी की हमारी,
परंपरा पुरानी है।
जीवन अौर मौत के बीच झुलते लोगों से पूछो,
इसका मोल क्या है?
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