Calcutta, Aug.30 :    Calcutta, Aug.30:  Wanted: A robust, efficient, honest-to-goodness Dracula, preferably with ISO certification, by an equal-opportunities employer. The job offers a 'bloody' challenge. If you feel you fit the bill, mail your CV to Javed Khan, Calcutta Municipal Corporation, at www.calmanac.org. The advertisement is fiction, but the requirement is fact. And so is the city's member, mayor-in-council, health, Javed Khan's growing anxiety. The reason is not hard to find. Khan and his men are desperately seeking an outlet for the blood piling up at the Corporation's slaughterhouses. Nearly 10,000 litres of blood from slaughtered cattle at the Tangra abattoir need to be disposed of every day. 'It is going to be a colossal task, for which I do not mind engaging a private company or even hiring a Dracula. I don't see any other solution in sight,' confessed Khan. For the past 30 years, Wardex, a Chennai-based pharmaceutical company, had been collecting the blood and processing it into an ingredient for a haematinic tonic for patients with iron deficiency. But last year, the Centre issued a ban on the preparation of such tonics throughout the country. After that, apart from an average annual loss of Rs 2 lakh, the Corporation has been saddled with its blood waste. The problem of disposal is 'critical' as there are no underground drains in the Tangra area. Using the surface drains for disposal would certainly trigger a public outcry. 'Moreover, it is not safe and could be a health hazard, as raw blood facilitates bacteria culture and growth,'' chief municipal health officer Sujit Ghosh pointed out. So what have CMC's abattoir workers been doing for the past few months? They wait for the blood to clot before mixing it with other refuse of the slaughterhouse and carting it off to the Dhapa dumping ground. Khan has turned to the civic body's project and development department for a possible solution. The department's chief engineer Nilangshu Bose, however, said that some consultants have to be approached, 'as we don't have the expertise to build an effluent plant that would take care of the blood.' One of the consultants to be sounded out, Stup, has recently set up such a plant in Aurangabad.