World Blood Donor Day 2019: India faces shortage of 1.95mn units of blood

In the past few years, India has seen an improvement in the blood collection (from 9.8 million units in 2012-12 to 11.45 million in 2017-18). Despite this, India stares at blood shortage of a whopping 1.95 million units. Several myths keep people from not coming forward to donate. On World Blood Donor Day, a look at the status of blood donation in India and what keeps people away.