KARACHI: Blood donation

Published October 24, 2005

KARACHI, Oct 23: Some 300 youth, residents of Karachi, donated blood at Al-Mustafa Blood Bank, bring run under the management of the Al-Mustafa Welfare Society.

Deputy administrator of the blood bank, along with a delegation, left here for the quake-affected areas to deliver the 300 bottles of blood to the mobile hospitals functioning there to provide treatment to those injured in the earthquake.

The society has made special arrangements at its Dhoraji Colony, Orangi Town, Malir and Shah Faisal Colony medical centres for providing treatment to the patients being brought to Karachi.

President of the Society Ahmed Shakoor on Saturday visited its Gulshan Centre and inquired about the health of five women patients under treatment there.—APP

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