Bengaluru: Two youth (unidentified) from Davangere with the rare Bombay blood group gave a new lease of life to another woman having the same blood group from Myanmar.
According to Dr BS Prasad, principal of the SS Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Institute, two youth having rare blood group had donated blood at the Institute some days ago and this saved the life of a 34-year-old Myanmar national who had undergone open heart surgery at the Yangon General Hospital in Myanmar some days ago.
Her haemoglobin level remained at 5, as against the required level of 13. The doctors treating her were desperate as they knew that it was a difficult task to find a donor having this rare blood group in Myanmar.
According to the sources, the Myanmar authorities were looking for Bombay group blood donors across South Asia. Through Sanklpa India foundation, an NGO engaged in blood donation drive it was found that this rare blood group was available in Davangere.
“We sent blood on November 27 with a special permission from the union government. Glad that the blood from our college saved a life in Myanmar,” he said.
Bombay blood group is a rare blood group in which the red blood cells do not have any of the ABO blood group antigens and have their own unique antigen. People with Bombay blood group can only receive blood donations from those with the same blood group.
