Donating his B negative blood at the right time, AIIMS Bhubaneswar doc helps save pregnant lady's life
Bhubaneswar: Coming to the rescue of a labor patient who needed the rare B negative blood, a doctor in AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, has earned appreciation from different quarters recently for voluntarily donating blood to a needy patient in the medical facility here.
Dr Debashish Mishra of the Department of Transfusion Medicine of the hospital donated one unit of B-negative blood, in the Transfusion Department, to a pregnant lady in serious condition.
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The incident happened on November 3, and the woman was discharged from the hospital on November 19. The doctor on duty on that day had come to know of an urgent blood requirement for a pregnant woman.
Since there were no relatives who could donate the required blood group, the doctor volunteered to donate his blood to save her life. The hospital, in a statement on Monday, said then the B-negative blood was not available in the blood bank.
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