Can you die giving blood

Shocked, he confronted the hospital authorities who were clueless. The character who made the call had switched off his phone. Verma discovered that to make ends meet, the wife of this hospitalised man had gone into prostitution. She told me to either stop crying or put an end to the problem.

Then in August, Mayank a year-old from Rampur, Bihar, who Verma had donated blood to two months prior, succumbed to cancer because the family and hospital were unable to arrange for blood. I had heard he died bleeding from everywhere… such an undignified way to go. Or fraudulent activities taking place by entities such as adding saline to turn one unit of blood into two Verma has met many dissuaders along the way.

His own family believed that donating blood made one impotent. And when he became a father shortly after, his family sheepishly recognised his efforts. Then Delhi, being the capital city, has the top private and government hospitals which are overflowing as these get patients from the neighbouring states — Haryana, UP and Bihar. The house runs on his wife earnings as a quality assurance executive in the food industry. But now to take the load off his wife and sustain his Simply.

Blood app, Verma is working on a profit-making enterprise of buying produce directly from farmers and selling it in Delhi, another endeavour of his that eliminates the middleman. One Lakshmi Vidyapith run college in Sarigam in Umargam taluka of south Gujarat had organized blood donation camp on 15 October last year. Nirbhay Rajubhai Patel 17 from Khanduji tekra, Valsad, first year student of Mechanical engineering came to the blood donation camp and donated blood for the first time in his life at Nirbhay was unwell soon after donating blood.

He felt himself unbalanced. At around 1. Just near Valsad over bridge Nirbhay faced Epilepsy attack and he collapsed. Vaghela and others carried out postmortem of his body in Valsad Civil hospital. The report is out just recently and it provides startling facts.

To overcome this bias, we investigated the relation between blood donation frequency and mortality within a large cohort of blood donors. In addition, our analyses also took into consideration the effects of presumed health differences linked to donation behavior. Study design and methods: Using the Scandinavian Donation and Transfusion database SCANDAT , we assessed the association between annual number of donations in 5-year windows and donor mortality by means of Poisson regression analysis.

The analyses included adjustment for demographic characteristics and for an internal healthy donor effect, estimated among elderly donors exempted from continued donation because of age criteria.