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Editorial policy

How pages in this library are written, reviewed, dated and corrected — what we will and will not publish, why some finished pages are still unpublished, and how to tell us we are wrong.

This library is published by Choudhari EduHealth India Foundation, the not-for-profit that runs Raktify. It is not a blog and it is not marketing. It is meant to be a reference that a patient's family, a first-time donor or a camp organiser can rely on, which means the standards it holds itself to have to be written down and visible.

This page is those standards. If we fail to meet them, this is the page to hold us to.

Nothing clinical publishes without a named reviewer

Any page that bears on a medical decision — who can donate, which blood group can receive from which, how long after an illness someone should wait — is reviewed by a named clinician before it is published. Not "reviewed by our medical team". A name, their qualification, and their affiliation, printed on the page.

Where we do not yet have that, the page stays unpublished. Several pages in this library are written and complete and are not live for exactly this reason, and the category index lists them as awaiting medical review rather than hiding them. We would rather show you that a page exists and has not been checked than publish it and hope.

The practical consequence is that this library grows slowly. That is the correct trade. An unreviewed clinical page that reads confidently is worse than no page, because the reader cannot tell the difference.

Every page says when it was last checked

Each page carries five dates and names, visibly:

• who wrote it
• who reviewed it medically, where the page is clinical
• when it was first published
• when it was last reviewed
• when it is next due for review

"Last reviewed" means a human read the page against its sources on that date and confirmed it still holds. It does not move because we fixed a typo or because the site was rebuilt — a freshness date that updates itself is a lie that looks like diligence.

A page past its review date is not automatically wrong, but it is overdue, and we would rather you could see that.

Where clinical facts come from

Clinical values on this site come from the same signed sources the platform itself uses, and from national guidance. They are not assembled from other websites.

Inside Raktify, clinical reference data — blood group compatibility, component shelf lives, deferral intervals — lives in the database as constraints and seeded reference tables, reviewed by the foundation's medical advisor before being loaded, and locked afterwards so that application code cannot alter it. Public pages quote those same values rather than restating them from memory, which is why a number on this site and a number inside the platform cannot drift apart.

Where a figure is commonly quoted elsewhere but is not in our signed sources, we leave it out rather than repeat it. There are numbers about blood donation that appear on hundreds of Indian websites, trace back to nothing, and are repeated because everyone repeats them. Absence on this site is sometimes deliberate.

What we will not publish

Advertising, in any form. No sponsored pages, no paid placements, no paid links, no affiliate arrangements. Nobody can buy a mention here.

Anything that promises an outcome. This library explains how blood donation and transfusion work. It does not tell you what will happen to you or to a patient you care about.

Anything that replaces a clinician. Every clinical page says, in terms, that the decision belongs to the doctor in front of you. The pre-donation questionnaire on the platform is a filter to save you a wasted trip, never a clearance, and the library says so wherever it comes up.

Appeals for money disguised as information. The foundation does accept donations, and the pages that ask are clearly the pages that ask. An article is not one of them.

Patient stories without informed consent, and never with identifying detail the person has not explicitly agreed to publish.

Fear. Blood shortage in India is a real and serious problem, and it does not need to be exaggerated to be worth acting on. We do not use frightening imagery or invented statistics to recruit donors, because a donor recruited by alarm does not come back, and because it is not honest.

Corrections

If a page is wrong, we correct the page and say that we did. A correction note stays on the page; it is not quietly edited out once the mistake is fixed.

To report an error, write to contact@choudhari.ngo with the page and what is wrong with it. You do not need to be a clinician, and you do not need to be diplomatic. A reader who tells us a page is confusing has found a real defect even when every fact on it is correct.

Clinical corrections go back through a named reviewer before the page changes. We will not quietly alter a clinical statement on the strength of an email, including a convincing one.

Independence

The reviewer's judgement on a clinical page is final. If the foundation and a reviewer disagree about what a page should say, the page does not publish. We will not overrule a clinician to make a page more persuasive, more reassuring, or better at recruiting donors.

No hospital, blood bank or institution on the Raktify platform has any editorial influence over this library, and being onboarded on the platform earns no mention here.

Language

We publish in English and Marathi, and we intend to publish in Hindi. Where a translation does not exist, the page falls back to English rather than showing a half-translated page.

Clinical terms — the names of the infections in the mandatory test panel, the names of components, the word "reactive" — stay in English even in a translated page, deliberately. A mistranslated clinical term is a safety problem rather than a style problem, and those words are the ones a blood bank will use when it speaks to you.

How this library is built

Every page here is a plain text file in the platform's own source repository, rendered to static HTML at build time. There is no content management system and no database behind it, which has two consequences worth knowing: every change to every page is recorded in version control with who made it and when, and the pages work offline, saved, forwarded or printed.

The structured data each page carries — its author, reviewer, dates and sources — is generated from the same front matter that produces the visible provenance block. The markup cannot claim a reviewer the page does not show you, because there is only one source for both.

Contact

contact@choudhari.ngo

Choudhari EduHealth India Foundation, Amravati, Maharashtra, India. CIN U88900MH2025NPL447942 · NGO-Darpan MH/2025/0643345.

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