In its bid to encourage people to donate blood, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government has tied up with popular social networking site Facebook. This has come in the wake of several people registering themselves with Facebook to become a blood donor.
Delhi Government’s outreach intends to enroll more and more people who could volunteer to donate blood for the needy patients.
Interestingly, with this initiative, if there is need for blood in Delhi, the blood bank can be approached through a call and Facebook will send out notifications to all those in that area who have registered as voluntary donors.
According to a notification from the Government, a message in this regard has been posted on various sites of the city Government, “You are requested to use Facebook and other social media for promotion of voluntary blood
donation” and to “get onboard on Facebook blood donation tool”.
With this plan, Facebook users can sign up on the site. 72 licensed blood banks have been directed to initiate a Facebook page. If there is requirement of blood, the blood bank can put a call and Facebook will send out notification to all those in that are who are registered as voluntary donors.
Notably, Facebook has started this feature in 2017 while In India process to register as voluntary donor is bit slow but with government tie up , this can be scale up.
