Millions of Indian people die every year due to blood related diseases. A majority of these deaths can be prevented by timely donation of blood to these people. At the Central Hospital of Dhanbad alone there are around 20 patients (8 of them are kids aging below 12 years) who suffer from Thalassemia which means their body can't secrete blood and hence, they need 2 units of blood every month in order to survive.

Bloodline is an innovative voluntary blood donation system which addresses the issue of blood shortage in blood banks in India along with an inefficient process of blood usage, by providing an alternative but a complimentary database based solution. The project volunteers are currently ISM students who manage demand of blood when someone approaches with a need or in the case of emergencies. Also, the contact details of the needful persons & their relatives are added to our existing database of blood donors.

Achievements

• Database of all ISM students is available. Whenever a need arises, the interested persons are contacted for donation.
• A BLOOD DONATION CAMP was organised on 04/12/2008 at ISMU Health Center, in association with PMCH, Dhanbad and NACO in which donors obtained credit card and test reports worth Rs.1200.
• A BLOOD DONATION CAMP was organised in the prison (Kara Mandal, Dhanbad) for the interested prisoners and staff in the first week of March.
• We have donated more than 120 units of blood to the needy patients till date.
• We ensure the donors availability and the precautions after donations regarding refreshment, donor’s card.
• Another BLOOD DONATION CAMP was organised on 13/04/2009 at ISMU Health Center, in association with PMCH, Dhanbad and NACO. Parallelly on the same day, we organised AWARENESS CAMPAIGN for ISMU students and teachers. The awareness campaign was spearheaded by Mr. S. Mukherjee (a 92 times donor), Voluntary Blood Donor’s Association, Jamshedpur.
• We have planned to organise a blood donation camp at ISMU Health centre every semester.