A father of a five-and-half-year-old thalassemic boy from Godda district was forced to pedal 400 km for blood transfusion of his child amid the ongoing lockdown as the local blood bank does not have any stock.

Two days ago, Dilip Yadav, a contract labourer in his mid-40s, returned to his village in Mehrama block after travelling to Jamtara sadar hospital with his child for the blood transfusion, a distance of 400 km to and fro. This is the second such bicycle rally for Yadav, who returned from Delhi in mid-February after the lockdown started in the national capital to stop transmission of the Covid-19 virus.

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