Roll up a sleeve,
save three lives.
One donation is separated into red cells, plasma and platelets. Three patients, out of one hour of your morning.
One record. Every camp.
You fill the form once. Your group, your last donation and what you are taking carry to every camp after it, so the desk already knows you and the only queue left is the one for the needle.
It is an hour. For someone else it is the rest of their life.
Blood cannot be manufactured and it does not keep for long. Red cells last about six weeks, platelets five days. Which means a blood bank is never stocked; it is only ever being refilled.
3
patients
helped by one donation, once it is separated
10 min
on the couch
of an appointment that runs about an hour
56
days
between whole-blood donations. That is all
0
substitutes
have ever been manufactured. It only comes from people
A fresh, sterile kit for every donor
Needle, tubing and bag are single-use and opened in front of you. Giving blood cannot give you an infection. That is the one fear worth naming out loud.
You are screened before anything happens
Haemoglobin, blood pressure, weight and a short history. If today is not your day the officer says so, it is recorded, and you come back to the next camp.
Your body replaces it
Plasma volume is back within a day or two and red cells within a few weeks. Eat, drink water, and skip the gym until the evening.
Forty minutes, start to finish.
Almost none of it is the needle. Here is the whole thing, in order, so nothing on the day is a surprise.
You register
2 minThe form on this page, once. It takes about two minutes and you never fill it again, because the next camp already knows you.
You check in
5 minGive your name at the desk. Your row is already there with your group and your last visit on it, so there is nothing to write out.
You are screened
10 minHaemoglobin, blood pressure, weight, and a short private conversation about your health and medication. The officer decides, and either answer is fine.
You donate
10 minAbout 350–450ml, on a couch, with a fresh sterile kit opened in front of you. Most of that time is you lying still rather than anything happening.
You sit, eat, and go
15 minJuice and a biscuit while you are watched for a quarter of an hour. Your record is updated before you stand up, and your certificate reaches your inbox.
Most people who think they can’t, can.
The middle column is the one worth reading. Almost everything that stops you giving blood stops you for a few weeks, not for good.
You can almost certainly give
- You are 18 to 65
- You weigh 45kg or more
- It has been 3 months since you last gave
- You feel well today and slept normally
- You are on routine medication like thyroxine or a statin
- You have a tattoo or piercing older than 6 months
Come to the next one
- You gave blood less than 3 months ago
- You have a cold, a fever or an infection right now
- You finished a course of antibiotics within 2 weeks
- You had a tattoo, piercing or major dental work within 6 months
- You are pregnant, or gave birth within the last year
- You had surgery or a transfusion within 6 months
Talk to us first
- You are being treated for a heart condition or cancer
- You have hepatitis B or C, or HIV
- You are on insulin
- You have had an unexplained fainting problem
- You are taking a blood thinner
The camp runs itself on the same record the donor filled in.
No register at the door, no spreadsheet afterwards, no evening spent typing up slips. The form a donor submits from their phone is the row the desk screens against and the line the report is built from.
Real names, on the record.
You are being asked for a unit of your blood and a page of your medical history. The least we can do is tell you who is asking.
- CEO & FounderPiyansu Dugar
- Co-founderNillotpal Bora
- CTOVeeshal D. Bodosa
- CDOJeu Machahary
- COOAakash Agrahari
Someone is waiting
for your group.
Two minutes to register, forty on the day. Do it once and every camp after this one is just turning up.
Or call +91 60031 81933