Shiv Sena corporator offers 1 kg chicken or paneer for donating blood

Potential donors will have to register before December 11, and around 300 people already have. done so.

Moneycontrol News

December 10, 2020 / 20:06 IST

Blood banks across Mumbai are facing shortage of blood owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) corporator and Shiv Sena leader from Prabhadevi in Mumbai, Samadhan Sarvankar, has offered an unusual incentive to urge people to take part in a blood donation drive: donate blood and take home either one kg of chicken or paneer.

Samadhan, who is the son of senior Sena leader Sada Sarvankar, is organising the blood donation drive on December 13 at Rajabhau Salvi Ground in New Prabhadevi in partnership with the KEM hospital.

Potential donors will have to register before December 11, and, according to a News18 report, around 300 people already have.

According to the corporator, he was stuck by the idea of offering paneer or chicken during the camp after he read the World Health Organisation (WHO) website that poultry and dairy products are a good source of protein and vitamins, besides being immunity boosters.

"The idea of distributing chicken and paneer struck me when I read on the World Health Organisation's (WHO) website that poultry and dairy products are a good source of protein and vitamins, besides being immunity boosters. Since its a pandemic era. So I decided to give all blood donors chicken or paneer as per whether they are vegetarian," he said.

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