Man walking 21,000 kms for blood donation awareness reaches Kohima

November 28, 2023 35 Views No Comment

Our Correspondent
Kohima | November 28

Kiran Verma, who started his 21,000 kms walk for blood donation awareness in India from Thiruvananthapuram on December 28, 2021, reached Kohima on November 26.

He met Nagaland’s Tourism & Higher Education Minister Temjen Imna Along in Kohima on November 27.

His next destination after Kohima will be Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and other part of North East India.

This walk is going to be the “longest blood awareness campaign ever by an individual in the world” which will run for more than 2 years.

The mission for the walk is to spread awareness about blood donation among people so that “Nobody should die waiting for blood in India after December 31, 2025”. This walk is to encourage around 5 million new blood donors to donate blood, so that blood banks and hospitals don’t run dry on blood.

On April 9, Kiran Verma was also invited on the Kapil Sharma Show. On June 19, Verma crossed 3 nations (Bangladesh, India and Nepal) in a single day on foot through Siliguri corridor. Probably a unique record made by any India.

To support his walk, 126-blood donation camps have been organized in different parts of the country through which more than26,722 units of blood have been collected. Apart from the camps, more than 9000 individual blood donors have donated blood in their personal capacity at different blood banks across India and abroad to support this campaign.