A man in his mid-40s hitched a motorcycle ride late on Wednesday and came all the way from Bally in Howrah to SSKM Hospital to donate two units of Bombay blood, a rare type, for a patient who was awaiting a critical operation on his left leg.

Nilkantha Das reached the hospital’s blood bank around 11pm, covering a distance of around 18km. By the time he returned home early on Thursday, doctors at the surgery ward had started preparing Montu Sarkar from Amtala, in South 24-Parganas, for the operation.

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