MBA Dropout Initiates A Digital App To Locate The Doctors And Patients Both For Their Blood Requirements
Blood sure is a platform where patients and their families can connect to the right blood donors. They have helped people in blood and platelet donation emergencies.
By Bhavonblog
Watching his father donate blood since his childhood, the cause has always been special respect to Raghav Baldwa’s heart. He followed his custom at the age of 17, but there was more that he wanted to accomplish.
Back in his home town of Indore, he noticed that there are so many people who were finding it extremely difficult to find blood donors in cases of emergencies. This makes Raghav decide to link the gap between donors and people in need, he put up pamphlets in five government hospitals, three private hospitals, and a few medical stores, asking people seeking blood donors to contact him.
Raghav Baldwa, MBA dropout from T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal, attributes his success to his college’s alumni who have been instrumental help at every step of the way. Raghav received support from friends and family with assistance from various organisations like AIESEC, which have helped him in organizing and promoting the cause of blood donation. He starts from social media platforms which benefited him with great appreciation and response. Hence, it proved valuable steps to begin. This gave birth to his initiation, which he named BLOODSURE.
Blood sure is a platform where patients and their families can connect to the right blood donors. They have helped people in blood and platelet donation emergencies.
Till now, they helped over 12000 people, organized over 26 blood camps, collected over 4000 pints of blood for thalassemia patients. They have a network of over 45000+ frequent donors. It is an NPO social platform that connects blood and platelets, donors, to those in need in real-time.
Raghav Baldwa, the founder of blood Sure has worked hard on a blood donation app which will be a location-based application that will locate and communicate with blood donors in proximity.
" My father has donated blood over 60 times so far. I've learned that if there's anyone who needs blood, surely there's someone who can donate blood and help save a precious life."
-Raghav Baldwa, Founder of Blood Sure (since 2012)
They have raised around $5000 in seed funding in 2013. it's a new initiative in collaboration with the WHO( World Health Organisation) to raise awareness and help people with depressions. This helped him gather data on various donors in the city, which led him to organize his very first blood donation camp, in collaboration with the NGO Thalassemia And Child Welfare Group.
Blood donation is the noble act of humanity to save others' lives with just a little effort. Somebody needs a few drops of blood to be alive. If your one act can help them to survive then, what is the biggest support than this ?? Many of them are stranger and many are acquaintances but helping someone to live a new life is the biggest achievement. If you are 18+ in age and still thinking about how blood donation is done? Does it hurt? Does it result in weakness in the body? Or we would lack blood after donation? Then stop thinking! Here is an article with all the details you need to know about Blood Donation.
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