Archive · 10 Aug 2026
Blood Shortage Hits Hamidia Hospital; JUDA Steps Up Donation Drive
A hospital in Bhopal, India, has run out of enough blood to help its patients.
Blood is the liquid that carries oxygen around our bodies, and some sick people need extra blood from donors.
The hospital helps children who have illnesses like thalassaemia and sickle cell disease.
When it rains a lot, from July to August, blood donation camps do not happen.
That is why the hospital has less blood during this time.
Doctors and nurses at the hospital are giving their own blood to help.
The hospital has also asked people and organisations to come forward and donate.
Every day, about 100 patients at the hospital need blood.
Some children need a special kind of blood that has had white blood cells taken out.
Donating blood can help save the lives of these children.
A severe blood shortage at Hamidia Hospital in Bhopal is affecting critically ill patients, accident victims, surgery patients, and children with thalassaemia and sickle cell disease.
JUDA has organised a blood donation camp and appealed to people, social organisations, and institutions to donate blood.
JUDA general secretary Dr Rahul Thakur said around 100 patients need blood daily, especially sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia patients and high-risk pregnant women.
Blood bank incharge Dr Punit Tandon said the shortage recurs in the rainy season (July-August) because donation camps are not organised, with camps resuming in September.
The number of thalassaemia patients at Hamidia Hospital has risen from 7-8 to up to 25, increasing the demand for leuco-depleted blood.
- Who
- Hamidia Hospital in Bhopal, JUDA, and patients including critically ill individuals, accident victims, and children with thalassaemia and sickle cell disease.
- What
- A severe blood shortage at Hamidia Hospital prompted a blood donation drive by JUDA and an appeal for public donations.
- When
- During the rainy season (July-August), with blood donation camps to resume from September.
- Where
- Hamidia Hospital, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
- Why
- Blood donation camps are not organised during July-August, and the number of thalassaemia patients at the hospital has increased.
- Hospital
- Hamidia Hospital
- Location
- Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
- Daily patients needing blood
- Around 100
- Affected groups
- Critically ill patients, accident victims, surgery patients, thalassaemia and sickle cell patients, high-risk pregnant women
- Special blood needed
- Leuco-depleted blood (white blood cells removed) for thalassaemia children
- Shortage period
- July-August (rainy season)
- Thalassaemia patients
- Increased from 7-8 to up to 25
- Blood camps resume
- September