Bagalkot: A new Distress Relief scheme has come into force for those women who need blood either before or after the delivery of a child in a municipal hospital, to provide blood.
Under an agreement signed by Bangalore Rotarians, TTK medical Trust and State Directorate of Medico services, the rescue plan for pregnant or delivering mothers has taken shape. The blood bottle supply is presently done in few districts only on an experimental basis. The blood can be used from the Blood Banks in each district hospitals in Raichur, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Bidar, Gulbarga, Koppal, Yadgiri and Chamaraja Nagar districts only.
Bangalore Medical Service Trust arranges the blood in need to would be mother. There is no fee on such donation of blood made. Available under difficult / emergency conditions, said Dr. A.B Choudhary and Dr. A.N. Desai of the Trust.