Comments on: Save A Life: Why donate blood Chopaal’s way http://www.bhonpoo.com/2009/02/21/save-a-life-why-donate-blood-chopaals-way/ ..an undesirable sound Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:54:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Ghaffar akram http://www.bhonpoo.com/2009/02/21/save-a-life-why-donate-blood-chopaals-way/comment-page-1/#comment-18830 Ghaffar akram Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:02:04 +0000 http://www.bhonpoo.com/?p=187#comment-18830 plz is nomber py rabta krana 03027717183 main nay quota zyda krny ka pochna ha plz is nomber py rabta krana 03027717183
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]]> By: Muhammad http://www.bhonpoo.com/2009/02/21/save-a-life-why-donate-blood-chopaals-way/comment-page-1/#comment-13169 Muhammad Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:38:20 +0000 http://www.bhonpoo.com/?p=187#comment-13169 hmmm.. thats a really Good topic... u should donate your blood after 6 months or like Year...... because your donation can safe any1 life... blood donation is very good for you too for your health.....rotation of blood is very important after some months... :) hmmm.. thats a really Good topic… u should donate your blood after 6 months or like Year…… because your donation can safe any1 life… blood donation is very good for you too for your health…..rotation of blood is very important after some months… :)

]]> By: yaser http://www.bhonpoo.com/2009/02/21/save-a-life-why-donate-blood-chopaals-way/comment-page-1/#comment-5017 yaser Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:48:10 +0000 http://www.bhonpoo.com/?p=187#comment-5017 @ Aman: Thanks for these nice and detailed comment. I have conveyed your suggestions to Chopaal's Team. As far as my opinion is concerned. you are mostly spot on in the things you have mentioned. The sad fact is though that many healthy youngsters dont even realize that they can do a lot by only donating blood but they dont as most of them are afraid. I myself donate blood mostly after 2-3 months. As far as suggestions regarding Chopaal well as Chopaal is a Mass Communication service one can invent multiple uses of it, for now only efficient way i could find was that one can remove itself from the tag after donating blood to avoid receiving updates. Sending a lot of sms may not be an issue for Chopaal so this might not be an issue at all (As i myself being a user dont mind if i get a SMS asking me for blood even though i had just donated i.e. i end up helping in one way or the other). Chopaal has this tag mute feature but it doesn't work for that long duration (May be Chopaal team can extend the Tag Mute time to months). As far as running the blood donation awareness campaign, I am in. I'll discuss this with Chopaal's team and let you guyz know. It will take them sometime to overcome some small technical details and hurdles. After that we can definitely do this. I'll drop you an email to discuss this further after Chopaal's team is done planning this. @ Aman: Thanks for these nice and detailed comment.
I have conveyed your suggestions to Chopaal’s Team.
As far as my opinion is concerned. you are mostly spot on in the things you have mentioned. The sad fact is though that many healthy youngsters dont even realize that they can do a lot by only donating blood but they dont as most of them are afraid. I myself donate blood mostly after 2-3 months.
As far as suggestions regarding Chopaal well as Chopaal is a Mass Communication service one can invent multiple uses of it, for now only efficient way i could find was that one can remove itself from the tag after donating blood to avoid receiving updates. Sending a lot of sms may not be an issue for Chopaal so this might not be an issue at all (As i myself being a user dont mind if i get a SMS asking me for blood even though i had just donated i.e. i end up helping in one way or the other). Chopaal has this tag mute feature but it doesn’t work for that long duration (May be Chopaal team can extend the Tag Mute time to months).
As far as running the blood donation awareness campaign, I am in. I’ll discuss this with Chopaal’s team and let you guyz know. It will take them sometime to overcome some small technical details and hurdles. After that we can definitely do this. I’ll drop you an email to discuss this further after Chopaal’s team is done planning this.

]]> By: Adil Saleem http://www.bhonpoo.com/2009/02/21/save-a-life-why-donate-blood-chopaals-way/comment-page-1/#comment-4942 Adil Saleem Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:58:26 +0000 http://www.bhonpoo.com/?p=187#comment-4942 Arranging for blood in emergency is always difficult. I remember once my friend had to arrange for blood at night and he had to run around the whole city and call about a dozen people just to find the in-charge of blood donors society in a university. This would certainly help establish a central & localized repository for blood donors. I would add just one thing to Amanullah, considering that arranging for blood is of highly critical nature, the group must be given utmost priority. A delay of even few minutes might make a life or death decision Arranging for blood in emergency is always difficult. I remember once my friend had to arrange for blood at night and he had to run around the whole city and call about a dozen people just to find the in-charge of blood donors society in a university.

This would certainly help establish a central & localized repository for blood donors. I would add just one thing to Amanullah,

considering that arranging for blood is of highly critical nature, the group must be given utmost priority. A delay of even few minutes might make a life or death decision

]]> By: Amanullah Kariapper http://www.bhonpoo.com/2009/02/21/save-a-life-why-donate-blood-chopaals-way/comment-page-1/#comment-4919 Amanullah Kariapper Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:15:40 +0000 http://www.bhonpoo.com/?p=187#comment-4919 Dear Yaser, I've been meaning to talk to you guys about this for some time. It's great that you've taken this one step further by introducing tags specific to cities and blood groups. Some feature requests: 1. Some easy way for donors to let their chopaal know when they last donated and what they consider to be their safe minimum recovery time - most people agree that the minimum is 3 months but I've known very healthy people to donate every two months while six months is a very safe minimum. 2. Chopaal should then only send the donation requests out to those who have passed their minimum recovery time. I think these two simple features will greatly improve the efficiency of the service. Thirdly, an activity suggestion: Let's go to the major campuses, possibly teaming up with medical students from AIMC/KEMC, such as LUMS, FAST-NU, PU, FC, GC, UET and do short, simple seminars that: 1. Talk about the importance of giving blood 2. Provide a list of hospitals/clinics that are known to follow all the proper hygiene protocols when taking blood 3. Introduce chopaal and more specifically its potential as a way of mass-communication in times of crisis. 4. Introduce the new tags 5. Do a mass sign-up helping students who don't have regular Internet connections (there are still loads of them out there) to fill out simple forms that a few "operators" can punch in right there and then. On the form, we can just ask them for their cell number, email address and the blood groups they wish to subscribe to. I've discussed these ideas on and off with Ale and Jareer and they're both willing to help out. Perhaps we can start with FAST? Let me know. Regards, Aman Dear Yaser,

I’ve been meaning to talk to you guys about this for some time. It’s great that you’ve taken this one step further by introducing tags specific to cities and blood groups.

Some feature requests:
1. Some easy way for donors to let their chopaal know when they last donated and what they consider to be their safe minimum recovery time – most people agree that the minimum is 3 months but I’ve known very healthy people to donate every two months while six months is a very safe minimum.
2. Chopaal should then only send the donation requests out to those who have passed their minimum recovery time.

I think these two simple features will greatly improve the efficiency of the service.

Thirdly, an activity suggestion:
Let’s go to the major campuses, possibly teaming up with medical students from AIMC/KEMC, such as LUMS, FAST-NU, PU, FC, GC, UET and do short, simple seminars that:
1. Talk about the importance of giving blood
2. Provide a list of hospitals/clinics that are known to follow all the proper hygiene protocols when taking blood
3. Introduce chopaal and more specifically its potential as a way of mass-communication in times of crisis.
4. Introduce the new tags
5. Do a mass sign-up helping students who don’t have regular Internet connections (there are still loads of them out there) to fill out simple forms that a few “operators” can punch in right there and then. On the form, we can just ask them for their cell number, email address and the blood groups they wish to subscribe to.

I’ve discussed these ideas on and off with Ale and Jareer and they’re both willing to help out. Perhaps we can start with FAST? Let me know.

Regards,
Aman

]]> By: Asim Fayaz http://www.bhonpoo.com/2009/02/21/save-a-life-why-donate-blood-chopaals-way/comment-page-1/#comment-4910 Asim Fayaz Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:09:05 +0000 http://www.bhonpoo.com/?p=187#comment-4910 Thanks for the great review! You can find a list of blood group tags and instructions on how to join and send messages to the tags here: http://chopaal.pk/blood/ Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks for the great review!

You can find a list of blood group tags and instructions on how to join and send messages to the tags here: http://chopaal.pk/blood/

Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions or suggestions.

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