Azerbaijan launches blood donation campaign over Ashura Day

  12 October 2016    Read: 2280
Azerbaijan launches blood donation campaign over Ashura Day
On the occasion of Ashura, Azerbaijan’s Caucasian Muslims Board (CMO) and Ministry of Health have launched a joint campaign of voluntary blood donation in 15 mosques.
Zohra Alimirzayeva, the director of the Research Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion named after B. Eyvazov, overseeing the process in Tezepir Mosque, said a total of 400 people have donated blood so far.

Before donating their blood, citizens are examined lest they be diseased.

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