Nagarkurnool DM donates blood to pregnant woman awaiting surgery on first day

HYDERABAD: The new collector of Nagarkurnool L Sharman who took charge on Friday started off his work donating blood for a pregnant woman at the District Government Hospital.
Before he was posted to the district, Sharman was an additional secretary in the Municipal administration and urban development department.
On Friday, Sharman inspected the isolation ward and the ICU for Covid19 cases at the Government hospital at Nagarkurnool. There are nine patients undergoing treatment and he saw the facilities provided for them.
At another block, he handed over a KCR kit to a woman who had delivered a baby at the hospital on Thursday. While the collector was there, another pregnant woman was being readied for surgery and the collector learned that she needed ‘O negative’ blood. The collector immediately got his BP checked and blood tests are done and donated blood.
As there was no stock of ‘O negative’ blood in the blood bank in the hospital, collector Sharman volunteered to donate the blood. He also urged people to come forward to donate blood to those in need.
District Medical and Health officer D Sudhakar Lal, hospital superintendent D Prabhu, Red Cross district secretary Ramesh Reddy and other doctors accompanied the collector as he inspected the hospital premises.