1.How to safely donate blood during coronavirus pandemic

Hospitals are currently overburdened due to the coronavirus pandemic. The fear of coronavirus infection has stopped many people from seeking medical help for other ailments, which is not right. Not just this, the fear of transmission of the virus has also reduced the number of blood donors.

While the demand has increased with more people getting hospitalised, the number of people donating blood has decreased. According to the Indian Red Cross Society's weekly update on June 4, the blood units collected was 99, while units used were 216.

The requirement for the blood is the same (or more), while the donation has reduced. Because there is no substitute for blood, it's absolutely necessary to donate blood even during the pandemic. Just make sure that you and the hospital should follow all the safety precautions.


2.Who can donate blood?

Any individual who has no side effects, or has not fallen wiped out as of late and has not interacted with a COVID 19 patient, can give blood securely. 

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has given rules on the protected method to give blood and blood plasma during the coronavirus pandemic.

3.Here is a list of things to be kept in mind:

- Maintain great respiratory cleanliness. For instance, don't hack or wheeze transparently. Continue wearing your cover or utilize your elbow to hack or wheeze. 

- Hand cleanliness ought to be appropriately followed. Make a point to wash/sterilize your hands appropriately. 

- Cleaning and sterilizing the most-contacted surfaces ought to be of most extreme significance. 

- The seats in the clinic ought to be put at any rate six feet separated, remembering for the holding up zone and the assortment region. 

- Thermal screening of both the emergency clinic laborers and the patients ought to be done before they enter the premises.

4.Steps to be followed when you go for blood donation:

- Be exceptionally cautious about hand cleansing. Wash your hands when you give the blood. 

- Keep wearing your cover and don't contact your face or the outside of your veil. Wash your hands before contacting your face and wash your hands on the off chance that you contact the external side of your cover accidentally. 

- When you get back home, change and wash all the garments and clean up as well. 

- Take steam as it will help in keeping away from nasal disease. 

- Have some kadha, home grown tea, haldi milk around evening time. You can do this consistently to support your resistance.