Central Blood Transfusion Service to urge local level to run blood donation campaigns

Provincial and local authorities agreed to provide free blood, which is always scarce in Kathmandu Valley.

A nine-month-old baby was scheduled to undergo heart surgery at Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre on Monday. Doctors at the hospital had asked his parents to arrange for three pints of AB-positive blood and clarified that they could only start surgery after the blood had been managed.