Online Blood Donor Service Launched
By our correspondent

KARACHI: An educational portal, eTaleem.com, launched its online blood donor service on monday providing a virtual platform to the blood banks an indivisuals to interact in case of an expected emergency.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, Interior Minister, Lt Gen (Retd) Moinuddin Haider, impressed with the online blood donor service, said the internet could offer vast oppertunities including very smartly exploited potential of reaching the blood donors without much hassle.
He said that very few people were talking of positive achievements, even phenomenal 60 per cent growth rate of Internet users.
He mentioned that the nation had been entangled 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 potentials in human resources and everybody must light a candle instead of crusing 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 emerging technologies.
Maj Gen (Retd) Ghulam Omar, who presided over the ceremony, gave full marks to eTaleem.com for taking initiative in the neglected sector of blood donor services. He said that such services to humanity could be the best line of action for the human being. "Final judgement will be based on how good you are with others."
Omar believed that an organised blood donation service would be good for everybody. He emphasised that correlation among different blood services to serve the needy, . He said that the country came into being with special divine blessings as the purpose behind the creation of 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 banking 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 one education website in Asia.
Director Marketing eTaleem.com, Faisal Anwar said that approximately seven million people in Pakistan were suffering from life threatening diseases, which require regular blood transfusions.
He said that researchs have shown that every three seconds, someone in 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.
"Millions of people are in need of blood and with a contribution of a population of 140 million this problem can be encountered".
He said that eTaleem.com will be used as a plotform to offer link between those who wanted to donate blood and those who were in need of it". "eTaleem.com recieved three million hits in a very short span of time due to the sincere and hard work 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 transfusion could not be traced coming from safe sources. He extended 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.