Close up of male donor donating blood and squeezing a stress ball.
Hyderabad is a city of contradictions in healthcare. On one hand, it hosts some of India's most advanced medical institutions — NIMS, AIIMS Hyderabad, Yashoda Hospitals, Apollo, AIG, and a dozen other nationally recognised facilities that draw patients from across Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and beyond. On the other hand, vast swathes of the city and the broader state — particularly tribal and semi-rural areas — still struggle with basic healthcare access, including a reliable blood supply.
This tension shapes everything about blood donation in Hyderabad: a city that, in 2025, set a record with NIMS collecting 25,105 units of blood — its highest ever in a single year — while simultaneously seeing urgent WhatsApp requests for rare blood types circulating daily in neighbourhood groups.
The blood system is improving. But it needs more voluntary, regular donors to become genuinely robust.
Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) — one of India's leading tertiary care public hospitals — set a milestone in 2025 by collecting 25,105 units of blood, conducting 50 voluntary blood donation camps, and completing 727 single donor platelet (SDP) procedures despite limitations in apheresis kit supply.
This achievement from a single institution illustrates both the scale of what is possible when blood banking is taken seriously — and the fact that even a record-breaking year at NIMS cannot alone meet the city's full demand.
Beyond NIMS, Hyderabad has a network of over 60 blood banks across government, charitable, and private sectors. The Telangana Drug Control Authority maintains a registry of licensed blood centres covering the full range of blood products — whole blood, components, and apheresis.
Government Hospitals:
Trust and NGO-run Blood Centres:
Private Hospital Blood Banks:
Apollo Hospitals, KIMS, Yashoda, Continental, CARE, Global Hospital, AIG, and Sunshine Hospitals all operate hospital-attached blood banks with component separation and apheresis.
Hyderabad serves as the primary referral destination for patients from across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh — including from tribal and semi-rural districts with high sickle cell anaemia and thalassemia burden.
Chhattisgarh and Odisha border states have among India's highest SCD prevalence rates in tribal populations. Tribal patients from Telangana's Adivasi communities also carry a sickle cell burden. Blood banks in Hyderabad — particularly NTR Trust, St. Theresa's, and NIMS — serve as critical supply points for these patients.
The presence of specialist NGOs like Thalassemia Rakshita, which specifically coordinates blood for thalassemia patients in the city, reflects the scale of this need. Their focused approach — ensuring that thalassemia patients have access to correctly typed, well-screened blood — is a model that other cities can learn from.
Hyderabad's HITEC City, Madhapur, and Gachibowli IT corridor is home to hundreds of thousands of young professionals at Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, TCS, Infosys, and dozens of other companies. This population mirrors Bengaluru's IT sector in key ways: young, educated, generally healthy, and embedded in corporate CSR structures.
Bengaluru's BMST built its 500,000-strong voluntary donor base largely through sustained, year-round corporate partnerships. Hyderabad's IT sector has the same potential — but the systematic, institutionalised engagement of IT companies in blood donation has not yet reached Bengaluru's scale.
Companies like Phenom India have started demonstrating what is possible: in May 2025, Phenom India organised blood and food donation drives across Hyderabad and Vizag, with over 150 employees donating blood voluntarily in collaboration with the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust. But corporate drives in Hyderabad are still event-driven rather than year-round habitual.
Building a corporate donation culture in HITEC City, Gachibowli, and Madhapur — as systematic as Bengaluru's — would transform Hyderabad's voluntary blood supply.
Walk-in donations: NIMS, Osmania General, Gandhi Hospital, and most major private hospital blood banks accept voluntary walk-in donors. NIMS has demonstrated that even a large government hospital blood bank can run systematic camp-based collection.
Organised camps: NTR Trust, IRCS Telangana, St. Theresa's, and PVNR Trust all organise regular camps across Hyderabad. Contact them through their listed numbers, or find upcoming Hyderabad camps on TheBloodApp.
Corporate CSR drives: If your company in HITEC City or Gachibowli does not run blood donation drives, this is a gap with enormous potential impact. Connecting with NTR Trust or IRCS Telangana for a partnership is the first step.
Platelet apheresis: NIMS completed 727 SDP procedures in 2025. Multiple private hospitals, including Apollo, KIMS, and AIG, offer apheresis. Register your interest through TheBloodApp to be notified when platelet donors are urgently needed in Hyderabad.
To make an urgent blood request in Hyderabad or find donation camps near you in Telangana, call the number listed in TheBloodApp.
Hyderabad's blood system has genuine strengths: the NTR Trust call centre model, NIMS's record-breaking 2025 collection, a rich network of charitable trust blood centres, and a growing IT sector population. But like every Indian city, it still relies too heavily on event-driven donations and too little on habitual, year-round voluntary giving.
The city that can convert even 10% of its HITEC City professionals into regular quarterly donors will see a transformation in its blood supply stability. And with platforms like TheBloodApp making that conversion easier than ever, the opportunity is real.
Register on TheBloodApp today. Be a Hyderabad blood donor. Donate quarterly, respond to urgent alerts, and be part of the city's growing voluntary donation network. Call the number listed in the app to find the nearest donation camp or submit an urgent blood request.
Sources: Telangana Today — NIMS Blood Bank Record 2025 | NTR Memorial Trust Blood Centre Hyderabad | Telangana Drug Control Authority — List of Blood Centres | IRCS Telangana | Mediniz — Blood Banks Hyderabad | Tripura Star News — Phenom India Blood Drive 2025 | WHO India Blood Safety 2024
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