“Health care and well-being of you and your family is of prime importance today. This is Airtel’s endeavor to empower customers to ensure the well-being of your family’s through mobile alerts on your Airtel cell. Airtel has pioneered the introduction these health services on mobiles by making effective use of mobile technology and innovating beyond mere communication applications. The customers can access these services at their finger tips and benefit from them.” 
The process of arranging blood is pretty agonizing as you have to call several blood banks or hospitals or may have to run from one blood bank to another for several hours to arrange one unit or several units of blood.
Airtel ‘Virtual Blood Bank’ service provides swift access to all Airtel customers who are in need of blood, the life saving element. All Airtel customers who are in need of blood will have to dial the toll free number 51514 from their Airtel mobiles. This IVR-based emergency helpline number will assist and guide the Airtel customer till the time his or her requirement of blood is met. This service will help the user to contact hospitals, blood banks and donors and will serve as a single point of contact for any blood requirement in advance or in an emergency. Mainly, Airtel’s aim is to bridge the gap between Blood Banks, donors and recipients of blood to the best extent possible.
Airtel has also launched a Vaccination Alert System on mobiles for its customers. It is called “VacciDate”, where all Airtel customers can subscribe to the VacciDate service free of cost and ensure their children are fully vaccinated in time. The Airtel VacciDate service is essentially for parents to keep track of their child’s vaccination dates. The key feature of VacciDate is the special alert feature for Polio Sundays organized by the Government of India.
The VacciDate service also allows customers to set the alerts basically for five vaccination dates. The customer can set two to four alerts for each vaccination date. These alerts would automatically alert the customers five days before the date of vaccination, one day before the date of vaccination and on the date of vaccination.
Airtel has launched these health care services on mobiles, enabling quick access to vital information for their mobile customers. All Airtel customers need to SMS VACC (Date of Birth in DD MM YYYY Format) to 52225.
