I was 1 year old when I got severe anemia and was in a critical condition. At 1 year old, it is rare to have such anemia and it was also difficult to diagnose the disease.

Well I was lucky that I was B+, so it was not a rare blood group. My father is B+ and donated the blood. Well I was kept in the ICU, my mother was itself a patient so she was not allowed to donate. So, my father has to donate the blood twice a time as this critical was my condition.

I was lucky then as I recovered from it. But after that incident, it motivated my father to donate more blood often as when he got to know the condition of the blood bank, he was severely traumatized.

Actually we live in a small town called Ramgarh Cantt in Jharkhand and that town there is no management and blood donors for blood donation. Patients often suffer huge due to these blood crisis and most of the people there are illiterate and avoid donating blood. My father at that time understood the need for blood donation as well as awareness in society.