RANCHI/DUMKA: Following the continuing lockdown, as soon as a contract labourer at Jharkhand’s Godda district revealed that the local blood bank had run from inventory, he pedalled 400km to guarantee blood transfusion because of his five-and-a-half-year-old son, who’s suffering from thalassemia, account ASRP Mukesh & Rajesh Kumar Pandey.
On Fridaythe dad — Dilip Yadav — who’s in his own mid-40s, returned to his village at Mehrama block later traveling to Jamtara sadar hospital along with his kid for its blood transfusion, a distance of 400 kilometers to and fro.
This is actually the next time which Yadav embarked on a very long cycle ride because of his child’s treatment.
Speaking to TOI on the telephone, Yadav said,”This was the next time that I needed to go to Jamtara to a bike taking my son since a drawback blood wasn’t available at the district bloodstream bank.
Before that, I’d gone to Dumka as well as Bhagalpur, searching for blood.
Without a getting, I could not employ a personal car.
” Yadav has four children — three daughters and a boy.
The boy has been discovered suffering from thalassemia four weeks following his arrival.
“We’d have ordered bloodstream from different sources needed the parent approached us.
We will make certain that no individual face issues in the district later on,” explained Godda civil physician Dr SP Mishrasaid