Telangana: Collector donates blood to pregnant lady

HYDERABAD: L Sharman, the new collector of Nagarkurnool who took charge on Friday, began his tenure by donating blood for a pregnant woman at the District Government Hospital.
On Friday, Sharman visited inspected the isolation ward and the ICU for Covid-19 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 the 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 learnt that she needed ‘O negative’ blood.
As there was no stock of ‘O negative’ blood in the blood bank in the hospital, the collector volunteered to donate blood. He immediately got his BP checked and blood tests done and donated 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.
Before he was posted to the district, Sharman was additional secretary in the Municipal administration and urban development department.