Online blood donor service launched

Karachi, June 26: An educational portal, eTaleem.com,launched its online blood donor service on Monday providing a virtual platform to the blood banks and individuals to interact in case of an expected emergency.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, Interior Minister Lt Gen (Retd) Moinuddin Haider, impressed with the presentation on the online blood donor service, said the Internet could offer vast smartly exploited potential of reaching the blood donors without much hassle.
He said that very few people were lalking of positive achievements, including phenomenal 65 per cent growth rate of Internet users.
He mentioned that the nation had been entagled in violence, terrorism, sectarianism and strike calls, which saw rise of intolerance in the society, where logic was lost and bullets had become parlance.
Moin said that the country lacked no potential in human resources and everybody must light a candle instead of cursing the darkness. He said that the concepts of health, education and information technology could be brought in rhyme with progress if the country moved on with thee emerging technologies.
Maj Gen (Retd) Ghulam Omar, who prosided over the ceremony, gave full marks to eTaleem.com for taking initiative in the neglected sector of blood donor services. He said such a service to humainity could be the best line of action for the human being. "Final judgement will be based on how good you're with others".
Omar believed that an organised blood donation service would be good for everbody. He emphasised correlation among different blood services to serve the needy patients. He said that the country came into being with special divine blessings as the state was establishing a society best in conduct of Islamic tradition.
The Director of eTaleem.com, Maj (Retd) Hanif Javed observed that the launch of the service was a historic step towards improved blood bank network and that too without costing much.
He informed that the company met immense success in record eight months time as Yahoo. Netscape and Lycos had rated eTaleem.com as number on website on education in Asia.
Director Marketing eTaleem.com, Faisal Anwar said approximately seven million people in Pakistan were suffering from life threatening diseases, which required regular blood transfusions.
He said that research had shown that eery three seconds someone around the world needed blood."Realising the issue, eTaleem.com envisioned the concept of an online blood donor service and has finally made it available for the masses free of cost" he added.
"Million of people are in need of blood but with the contribution of a population of 140 million this problem can be encountered."
He mentioned that eTaleem.com would be used as a platform to offer link between those who wanted to donate blood and those were in need of it. "eTaleem.com received three million hits in a very short span of time due to the sincere and hard working of our team, friends and well-wishers."
Director Marketing Jang Group of Newspapers, Sarmad Ali termed the blood transfusion process a difficult experience, as large number of transfusions could not be traced coming from safe sources. He extedded his company's support to eTaleem.com deeming it a social obligation to help build a better society. "As a good corporate citizen we are proud to be associated with this initiative," he added