When a dog in Ahmedabad needs blood, the hospital treating them is your first call. Blood has to be typed or cross-matched and the donor has to be screened, so a bag or a dog offered by a kind stranger is only useful once a veterinary team says it is safe for this patient.

One Ahmedabad hospital lists blood transfusion, and its emergency unit is open 24 hours. It doesn't say it stores blood, and no hospital here publishes a donor register, so expect to help find a donor dog.

If your dog needs blood now

Ask the hospital four questions, then look for a donor that fits what the vet asked for.

Call the hospital treating your dog and ask:

  1. Does my dog need whole blood, packed red cells or plasma?
  2. Can you transfuse here, and have you typed or cross-matched my dog?
  3. What kind of donor do you need: age, weight, anything else?
  4. If you can't transfuse, should we move to Paws Universe, or bring a donor here?

Then look for the donor yourself. Ask your society group, your dog-walking friends and local dog groups for a dog that fits what the vet said. Most requests are for a healthy, vaccinated dog between one and eight years old, and the bigger the better: a Labrador, a German Shepherd, a Golden Retriever or a large Indie.

Keep the hospital as the meeting point. Don't arrange a private collection, don't move blood between homes, and don't post your home address or your dog's medical records in public groups.

Who to call in Ahmedabad

One hospital that lists blood transfusion, in Bodakdev, with a 24-hour emergency unit.

  • Paws Universe in Bodakdev lists blood transfusion among the equipment of its critical care unit. Its emergency unit is open 24 hours, public holidays included, and takes cases without an appointment. Its website gives +91 99130 00853 as well as the landline on the card above. Phone first and ask whether it has a donor or needs you to bring one.

No other Ahmedabad hospital mentions transfusion on its website. Some may still do it, so at night start with the hospital already treating your dog, or one from our 24-hour vets in Ahmedabad guide, and ask.

Before you offer a donor dog

Use the national rules as a starting point. The hospital makes the final decision.

India's 2025 animal blood-transfusion guidelines say a canine donor should be one to eight years old, clinically healthy, calm, vaccinated against major infections including rabies, regularly dewormed, and free of tick-borne disease. A female donor must not be pregnant or recently lactating. The document gives different minimum weights for small, medium and large breeds, so a forwarded "25 kg minimum" message is not a national rule.

The same guidelines require a health exam, medical-history review and blood screening before donation. They give 15 to 20 ml per kg as the safe collection range and at least one to two hours of observation afterwards. Compatibility testing is a veterinary decision: the document notes that cross-matching is not normally required before a dog's first transfusion, but recommends it after a previous transfusion. Let the treating vet decide what this patient needs.

Common questions

Quick answers to what people ask most.

Is there a dog blood bank in Ahmedabad?

None that says it stores blood. Paws Universe in Bodakdev lists blood transfusion and runs a 24-hour emergency unit. Call +91 99130 00853 before you travel, and expect to help find a donor.