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Donation

Give blood. Pledge organs. Make it known.

Tools to check whether you can donate, understand blood types, and make sure your donation wishes are known.

Blood donation

Can I donate?

A 30-second guide. Your answers never leave this page.

Any of these right now?

Enter your age and weight to see a result.

A rough guide based on national blood-donor guidelines, not a medical clearance. The blood centre makes the final decision after its own screening.

Who can you give to?

Pick your blood group (red-cell transfusion).

Can donate to

O−O+A−A+B−B+AB−AB+

Can receive from

O−O+A−A+B−B+AB−AB+

Universal red-cell donor — the type emergency teams reach for first.

Simplified ABO/Rh guide. Hospitals always cross-match blood before a transfusion.

Find blood, blood banks and donation campse-RaktKosh — the Government of India's live blood-stock network

Organ & tissue donation

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deceased organ donor per million people in India — against 48 per million in Spain. Thousands of patients wait for an organ every year.

What one donor can give

KidneysLiverHeartLungsPancreasIntestineCorneasSkinBoneHeart valves

Deceased donation happens only after brain-stem death is certified by a board of doctors under the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994. Corneas and some tissues can also be donated after the heart stops.

Learn more at NOTTO
  1. 1

    Pledge with NOTTO

    Register on the national portal with Aadhaar OTP and choose which organs and tissues to donate. It takes a few minutes and is free.

    Open NOTTO pledge portal
  2. 2

    Tell your family

    In India, doctors still ask the family for consent at the time of death. A family that knows your wish can honour it.

  3. 3

    Add it to your band

    Record your pledge in Patient-Tap so it travels with your medical record — shown to responders as information only.

    Try it in the demo →

Donor status on Patient-Tap is information only. It is not a legal registration, and it never changes the care anyone receives: responders always treat first. See the medical disclaimer.