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A family in Gujarat has created history by donating around 630 liters of blood in four decades. Dr. Maulin Patel, a family member, said four of them are ‘stakeholders’ as they have donated blood more than 100 times. While 44-year-old Dr. Maulin Patel is the youngest centenarian blood donor in Gujarat.
Four people from the Patel family have donated blood 100 times
According to Dr. Maulin Patel, 16 people in three generations of the Patel family have donated blood more than 50 times. His father Ashok Patel (72) and mother Shakuntala (71) have donated blood 98 times. Dr. Maulin said he went to America just a week ago and donated There is blood. Because in India you can’t donate blood after the age of 65, while in America there is no age limit. He decided to return to India only after completing his hundred blood donation.
A blood donation camp is organized every three months
It all started in February 1985 when my uncle Ramesh Patel, the eldest of five brothers, participated in a program where Satya Sai Baba said that blood is liquid love, pour it out to others. Inspired by Baba’s message, my uncle organized a blood donation camp here for the first time that year to help the Red Cross supply blood to thalassemia patients. This inspired other family members to become regular blood donors. Now they organize blood donation camps every three months at their home and invite relatives and friends.
while 76-year-old Ramesh Patel donated blood 94 times. His nephew Mullin said he stopped donating blood a few years ago because of an age limit and health problems. All 27 of us have donated about 1,400 units of blood so far, which is around 630 liters as one unit normally contains 450 milliliters of blood, he said.
More than 130 centenarian blood donors in Ahmedabad
The family’s three other centenarian blood donors are Ramesh Patel’s daughter Goma, son Amul and Ramesh Patel’s brother Bharat Patel. Mukesh Patel, honorary president of the Ahmedabad Red Cross, praised the extraordinary record of the Patel family. Renowned tax consultant Mukesh Patel said that the blood donation movement in India started in 1963 from Ahmedabad and its pioneers included Dr VG Mavalankar and Dr VK Vani. Over the years, according to him, people in the city joined in and kept the momentum going. People started feeling proud about donating blood. The city of Ahmedabad now has the highest number of centenarian blood donors in India, 130.
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