{"id":33123,"date":"2021-06-15T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/15\/blood-man-of-kashmir-indias-biggest-blood-donor"},"modified":"2021-06-15T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T06:00:36","slug":"blood-brother-the-kashmiri-man-who-is-indias-biggest-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33123","title":{"rendered":"Blood brother: the Kashmiri man who is India\u2019s biggest donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018blood man\u2019 of conflict-racked Kashmir has donated 174 pints of blood since 1980 but feels \u2018crushed\u2019 by his poverty <\/p>\n<p>Shabir Hussain Khan was taking an afternoon nap when he heard a commotion outside his house. A friend had been injured in a football match and had lost a lot of blood. Khan, who did not have any transport, rushed to the hospital by foot to donate some. It was 4 July 1980. Yesterday the man known locally as the \u201cblood man of Kashmir\u201d donated his 174th pint of his blood to strangers at the public hospital close to his Srinagar home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlood is not something you can buy in the market,\u201d says Khan, who has an O-negative blood group. \u201cIn those days blood donation was not common, nor were blood banks. The way blood is available readily now, it was not like that before. Also there was no connectivity at that time. We only had radios and two or three landline phones in the entire locality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/15\/blood-man-of-kashmir-indias-biggest-blood-donor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018blood man\u2019 of conflict-racked Kashmir has donated 174 pints of blood since 1980 but feels \u2018crushed\u2019 by his poverty Shabir Hussain Khan was taking an afternoon nap when he heard a commotion outside his house. A friend had been injured in a football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,566,346,841,62,432,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-hospitals","category-india","category-kashmir","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33135,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33123\/revisions\/33135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}