Amar Singh is an MNREGA worker from Hanuman district’s Shyodanpura village in Rajasthan. He is a 53-year-old man who is popular as the ‘Blood Man’.
The story of Blood Man started in 1985 when he saw a man lying on the road, injured by an accident. Amar on his bicycle took the injured person to the hospital, where doctors asked him to donate blood for the patient.
Remembering the incident Amar said, “I was going to work on my bicycle when I found a Sikh man lying on the road after an accident. I carried him to the hospital in Sirsa (Haryana) across the border where doctors asked me to donate blood for him.”
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Amar said yes and donated blood for the first time. He was happy that he managed to save a life. He said, “Till then I didn’t know that by a simple act of donating blood, I could save someone’s life. It gave me immense satisfaction. It was an accidental discovery, but it gave my life a mission, which is now my passion.”
Since then, Amar started donating blood on regular basis. Amar said, “With the help of the Indian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohaematology (ISBTI) and other social organizations, I organized a large number of blood donation camps.”
Amar has donated blood more than 75 times and organized 350+ blood camps in northern states (Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab) of the country, confirms ISBTI chief Dr Yudhbir Singh. He also organized a camp when his son got married in the year 2007 and urged people to donate blood, through which he managed to collect around 114 units of blood. A similar camp was organized by Amar after her mother passed away in 2011.
Because of the inspiration by Amar Singh, his family donated the corneas of his 14-year-old niece after she died.
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Amar Singh’s monthly income is around 4000 per month, which according to him is sufficient to run the family that compromises his wife and two sons. He has also pledged to donate his body for medical research.