Qatar: MCC Holds 5th Annual Blood Donation Campaign at HMC

Media Release

Doha-Qatar, 03 Nov 2012: MCC conducted its 5th Annual blood donation campaign on November 2nd 2012 as a holistic service to the community at the Hamad Medical Corporation Blood Bank.

 

President Sunil D’Silva welcomed the gathering and thanked them for their noble gesture. He then introduced Mangalorean Community doctor Dr. Ashwin D’Silva, MBBS, MS (General Surgery), MRCS (Edinburg, UK) who is working as a specialist surgeon at the Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar,.  Dr. Ashwin spoke on the noble deeds of blood donations and various aspects and advantages of blood donation. He emphasized that it is harmless to donate blood by healthy adults and stressed the need to take the required simple precautions. He also encouraged the volunteers to regularly donate blood and appreciated the efforts put by MCC in organizing the campaign.

 

 

Many members attended and volunteered to support the noble cause and around 19 people who were eligible donated blood.

 

MCC thanks one and all who attended and volunteered to support this noble cause.