Archive · 5 Oct 2026
RINL Official Donates O-Negative Blood for 59th Time
Karri Srinivas works at Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited.
He has a rare O-negative blood type and has donated blood many times.
This time, a private hospital in Visakhapatnam needed blood for Md Khammar.
Khammar is being treated for kidney problems and severe anaemia.
Srinivas went to the hospital after the patient’s son called him.
This was Srinivas’s 59th donation.
He said an app called friends2support.org helps him find people who need blood.
Karri Srinivas, a DGM (Operations) at Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, donated O-negative blood for the 59th time.
He responded to an emergency request from a private hospital in Visakhapatnam.
The recipient, Md Khammar, is being treated for a kidney-related ailment and acute anaemia.
Khammar is from Vizianagaram, and Srinivas said he went to the hospital after receiving a call from the patient’s son.
Srinivas has donated blood since age 24 and said the friends2support.org app helps connect him with patients needing blood.
- Who
- Karri Srinivas donated O-negative blood to Md Khammar.
- What
- Srinivas made his 59th blood donation in response to an emergency hospital request.
- Where
- A private hospital in Visakhapatnam.
- Why
- Md Khammar, who has a kidney-related ailment and acute anaemia, needed blood.
- Donor
- Karri Srinivas, DGM (Operations) of the Blast Furnace at Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited
- Blood group
- O-negative
- Donation number
- 59th time
- Recipient
- Md Khammar
- Recipient's treatment
- Kidney-related ailment and acute anaemia
- Recipient's hometown
- Vizianagaram
- Blood donor app
- friends2support.org