Police officers donate blood for senior citizen who could not get donors

The incident was captured on CCTV cameras in the area.

Published: August 3, 2015 1:00 AM IST

By Press Trust of India

Police officers donate blood for senior citizen who could not get donors
New Delhi, Aug 2: In a relief for a senior citizen suffering from a disorder requiring frequent blood transfusions, the Station House Officer (SHO) of her area and several other Delhi Police officers today donated blood for her as she was unable to find any volunteer donors. Inspector Sanjay Bharadwaj, the SHO of Prashant Vihar police stations, came to know about the woman’s predicament during his routine visit to the homes of senior citizens residing in Rohini Sector 13 in north-west Delhi.

The woman informed him that she has been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a disorder which results in ineffective production of all blood cells and requires blood transfusions. She said that she was undergoing treatment at B L Kapoor Hospital and was having difficulty in finding donors who would donate blood as replacement for the blood that the hospital would provide her.

“Knowing this I contacted my personal friends Rajeev Bharadwaj, SHO of KNK Marg, Parmod Gupta, SHO of Kotwali, and others and went to the hospital. We all donated replacement blood for her and gave the blood donation cards to her at her home,” Inspector Bhardwaj said in a statement.Two policemen and another person were injured today when a man driving a car in an inebriated state hit them while trying to escape checking at a police post here.

Indrajit, a native of Haryana who is also an accused in a 2006 murder case and currently out on bail, reversed his car and hit a biker and two policemen when stopped at a police post in Shaukracharya Chowk for not following traffic rules, Superintendent of Police (City) Surjit Singh Panwar said.

Head constable Lalit Arya and traffic sub-inspector Ganga Singh were among the three injured in the incident, he said, adding that they all were out of danger. The incident was captured on CCTV cameras in the area. Indrajit, who has been arrested, has been booked under Sections 307 (attempt to murder), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty) and other relevant sections of the IPC.

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