Enduring life under the Coronavirus lockdown is surely hard. While some of us are getting bored and complaining of not being able to socialize, some people are struggling with their lives, suffering from many issues. Majorly, this lockdown has struck some people hard in the form of financial and even health problems. For starters, thalassemia patients, especially children are suffering from the unavailability of blood.
Undertaking this issue, Maulana Ilyas Qadri has donated 6,500 blood bottles, to curb this mass shortage, from within his cortege.
As of now, the coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 4,500 people, moreover causing 66 unfortunate deaths, in Pakistan.
Maulana Ilyas’s appeal to donate blood
Owing to 29th March, the Dawat-i-Islami ameer, Maulana Ilyas Qadri requested people and his companions to donate blood to banks. Since most of the blood is used for the treatment of coronavirus patients these days, the suffering of thalassemia patients has been evident.
Moreover, Moulana Ilyaas also promulgated, to help people of our country, who are suffering from the economic meltdown in Pakistan. Putting out his hand in this patrician cause, Maulana Ilyas along with his Dawat-i-Islami compatriots, donated more than 6,500 blood bottles.
Maulana Ilyas Qadria donated 6,000 bottles of blood for Thalassemia kids. ? brilliant! That’s what we need from our religious leaders pic.twitter.com/5ElpvgByX2
— Dr. Anam J. Cheema (@AnamCheema_) April 10, 2020
As of 5th April 2020, the Dawat-i-Islami report card shows more than 6,500 bags of blood for our thalassemia suffering children.
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Our nation needs our help
Ever since 2017, the number of thalassemia patients has been soaring up. Unquestionably, those who are suffering from this disease certainly need blood fusion to survive.
National statistics enumerate that every year, 6000 children end up suffering from this blood disorder, in which their bone marrow cannot make its own blood cells. This year’s count has reached up to 2.5 million!
Hematologist, Dr. Rahat Hussain, stated that every month 150,000 to 200,000 bags of blood are required for the patients of thalassemia. The more agitating news is that every month, there are thousands of children who are unable to get the blood amount, they require.
Being a part of this nation and as a responsible citizen, it is our duty to donate blood to our country’s blood banks, so that the future of these children can be saved.
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