Pune: Inspired by Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar’s current attraction to donate blood, a woman first-class cricketer has come forward to contribute in the direction of the nation in battle towards coronavirus.
Last week, Tendulkar had urged the residents, who’ve recovered from COVID-19, to come forward and donate plasma so as to battle the continued coronavirus pandemic. Tejal Hasabnis, a budding younger expertise from Pune who represents Maharashtra, just lately donated blood.Â
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— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) April 24, 2021
Speaking to ANI, she mentioned, “A few days ago, I read Sachin’s sir blog and I saw his post on his birthday that he was requesting everyone to donate blood. So I did donate my blood and then I came to know the situation right now is very tough.”Â
“So then I started creating blood donation and plasma donation awareness through social media. I work for an NGO, and we are now together creating awareness about it. We (Tejas and the NGO) planned to create awareness for people to come forward and donate blood and plasma, as the situation is really worrisome due to COVID,” she added.Â
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Tejal has at all times been related to social working teams. She additionally appealed by means of her social medial profiles to come forward and donate blood and plasma to battle the continued coronavirus disaster.
“I usually don’t like to post about the social work I try to do, but through this article, I’d like to appeal to all the youngsters and my fellow women cricketers to donate blood, donate plasma and reach out to people in distraught and offer a helping hand,” Tejal mentioned in a press release.
Tejal has represented Maharashtra in 3 First-class matches, 22 Limited over matches, and 22 Women’s Twenty20.
In January 2019, she was named within the India Green workforce for the 2018-19 Senior Women`s Challenger Trophy. She was additionally one of many coaches within the Pune leg of the Tendulkar Middlesex Global Academy camps held in 2018.
Meanwhile, India recorded 3,86,452 new COVID-19 instances within the final 24 hours. This is the best single-day spike within the instances for the reason that pandemic started final yr.
According to the Union Health Ministry on Friday, as many as 3,498 deaths and a couple of,97,540 recoveries have been additionally recorded within the final 24 hours.Â