Rukum (West) residents demand blood transfusion centres

The district does not have a blood transfusion centre which means patients and their families have to run from pillar to post looking for donors in their hour of need.

Nandaram Khadka, a resident of Tribeni Rural Municipality in Rukum (West), got his father admitted to the district hospital for surgery last week. The hours following his father’s admission were hectic, as Khadka had to look for a blood donor for his father’s treatment. He finally found a Nepal Army personnel to donate blood after 24 hours of search, he says.