Vendors outside hospitals double up as touts for blood donors
Friday, June 15th, 2007Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, June 15: Posing as a relative of a patient urgently in need of blood, all that Ashwini Varma, a medical technician, had to do was approach the nearest tea stall vendor outside the civil hospital. The deal was struck with Kallubhai, the tea stall owner, for Rs 500 per unit of blood. [...]