Dr. Shashi Tharoor launches Muthoot Pappachan Group's Life Blood Directory Portal and Helpdesk

Trivandrum, June 22, 2013

Dr. Shashi Tharoor , Union Minister of State for HRD  inaugurated Muthoot Pappachan Group’s  Life Blood Directory Portal and Helpdesk facility here today. The Muthoot Pappachan Life Blood Directory organized by Muthoot Pappachan Foundation is now live with its Portal and Help Desk. It is for the first time that such a help desk facility is being organized with a country wide reach. Following the World Blood Donor day on June 14th , all branches of the Muthoot Pappachan Group (over 3600 nos) have been equipped to support the donor management process.

The pilot of the Directory commenced on October 1st 2012 , the National Voluntary Blood Donation Day, by opening the Directory through the Muthoot Fincorp branches in Kerala. Any willing person can voluntarily join the Directory by signing the consent form at any Muthoot Fincorp branch.  Within this short span of the pilot phase, more than 30,000 people have registered in the Directory at the branches of Muthoot Fincorp. Most of the Group Company staffs are also members of the Directory. More than 100 donations were done through the Directory.

Entering into the second phase of the process, where the system is supported by a portal for the Muthoot Fincorp branches to register new Donors to the Directory as well as posting blood requests from any part of India. The requests will be processed at a central Help Desk. The Donor Management is done at the help desk and confirmation from prospective Donors based on the required units and location will be intimated to the patient’s relatives at the earliest.

Any person can register in the Directory by just walking into any of the nearest Muthoot Fincorp branch and providing their personal information and signing the consent form. Also they can access the portal through the domain www.muthootlifeblood.com to locate the nearest Muthoot Fincorp branches for both registering in the Directory as well as for placing request for blood in case of emergency for their near and dear ones.