Sangareddy: To make his birthday special, a 23-year-old teenager and his two friends donated blood on Saturday to help thalassemia patients.
Akhil Gold Salapala donated blood for the first time in his life following the advice of his former maths teacher Paisa Satyam who works at the ZPHS IDA Bollaram school. Since then, Akhil has encouraged 13 of his friends, including two on his birthday, to donate blood at various hospitals.
In the conversation with Telangana Today, Akhil, who now works as a supervisor at a pharmaceutical company, said that he received a call from his school teacher Satyam asking him to donate blood to a person. Until then, Akhil said he did not even know what his blood type was. The blood grouping then revealed that he was A + which corresponds to the blood group of the person who was in an emergency at the time. He said he felt good after donating blood as a life-saving gift.
‘I have found that blood banks and hospitals need blood a lot, as not many people come forward to donate blood during the pandemic. To make my contribution, I have had 13 of my friends donate blood over the past three months, ”said Akhil. To make his birthday celebration special, he said he went with his friends – Hemanth Ganesh and Kamesh – to the Thalassemia Sickle Cell Society in Rajendra Nagar in Hyderabad to donate blood.
Akhil Gold has promised that he will continue to donate blood on every birthday, except to encourage his friends and family members to accept the humanitarian call to donate blood that will make the difference between life and death. He also planted a tree on his birthday. His schoolteacher Satyam appreciated his student for his determination.
Source: Telangana Today