RUKUM, Nepal – Because Rukum (West) lacks a blood transfusion center, patients and their families must search from pillar to post for blood donors in their time of need.
Last week, Nandaram Khadka of Tribeni Rural Municipality in Rukum (West) had his father hospitalized at the district hospital for surgery. Khadka’s search for a blood donor for his father’s treatment was frantic in the hours following his father