The Hyderabad Blood Donors Society, which Sai Kumar started when he was a graduate student, now has a team of 18 core members and 150 active volunteers across the city.
In 2013, a relative of Sai Kumar’s friend was facing a medical emergency and was in dire need of blood. After checking with the family’s near and dear ones, Sai Kumar, who was a student, made about five calls and was able to arrange for a donor, whose blood saved the patient’s life. “All it took was a couple of calls and we could arrange the blood which saved the precious life of a person,” says Sai Kumar, who now runs the youth-led Hyderabad Blood Donors Society, which has facilitated about 20,000 blood and plasma donations in the last eight years.
The Hyderabad Blood Donors Society, which Sai Kumar started when he was an 18-year-old graduate student, now has a team of 18 core members and a network of 150 volunteers who actively step up to donate blood across the city. Sai, who manages the organisation alongside his main job, says that the Society began to fulfill blood donation needs, but grew with the intention of giving something back to society. According to Sai Kumar, the process of finding a blood donor, especially in a life-or-death situation, can be very stressful. Speaking to the families and giving them a sense of hope is also a key part of the HBDS’s job.
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