Socialblood redesign

Karthik Naralasetty, 22, had been navigating his way through Rutgers University when he ran out of money for college and had to move back to India. Not long after his return, Karthik witnessed near his home in Bangalore a family’s struggle to find regular blood transfusions for their four-year-old daughter to treat her thalassemia, a genetic blood disease. Every 25 days the family experienced the nightmare of trying to secure blood, going from hospital to blood bank, regularly being informed that they would be sold blood only if they provided a donor to replenish the supply. Studies have shown that a main reason people do not donate blood is because “no one asked them.” In a country of 1.2 billion people, Karthik realized he could make a difference by finding those would-be donors who had never been asked. He created www.socialblood.org, a social media platform that connects blood donors and recipients of the same blood type through Facebook. His platform, while still young, has already helped save one three-year-old boy’s life by helping him find blood donors for his heart surgery in less than three hours.

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Protože je to modrý, tak to vypadá šablonovitě. Good point.