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Le Matin – Blood donation operation in the City of Daisies

It is often said that a drop of blood can save a life. It is in this spirit that the Muslim Charitable Association and the Alkarama Association of Disabled People of Gharb organized, at the end of 2020, a blood donation campaign, in coordination with the Blood Transfusion Center of the El Idrissi hospital in Kénitra.
This call to duty from the organizers was heard, as nearly 120 people responded favorably to this solidarity initiative. Context Covid-19 requires, all preventive measures have been taken so that this operation takes place in the best health security conditions.
In a statement to the media, Dr Taoufik Lahlou, president of the Muslim Charitable Association and the Alkarama Association of Disabled People of Gharb, said blood donation in these difficult times is urgent, given the great deficit recorded both at local and national level in this vital matter. “We have mobilized all our executives and members in order to guarantee massive participation and to bring together the best conditions for success in this humanitarian action”, he indicated.
Pharmacist and laboratory technician, Dr Lahlou, whose social and charitable fiber is well established, spares no effort to give a smile and bring comfort to the most disadvantaged. “This operation will not be the last and we plan to organize other similar actions in the near future,” he said. Welcoming this blood donation operation, which takes place in the midst of a health crisis, Hajib Bahfid, president of the Al Farah Association for social, artistic and cultural works, stressed, on behalf of civil society in Kénitra, that the donation of blood, in these exceptional circumstances linked to the novel coronavirus pandemic, is of vital importance. “We cannot sit idly by, while the lives of others depend on our civility and our generosity”, he stressed.
For his part, Dr Abdellah Belhachmi, director of the provincial blood transfusion center at El Idrissi hospital, emphasized the glaring lack of blood bags in Kenitra and in several regions of the country. “The center was strongly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic which had negative repercussions on the local blood stock, he noted, stressing that the reserves are in the red and have never been so low due to of the epidemic crisis.
Dr Belhachmi praised this laudable initiative and took the opportunity to appeal to citizens and components of civil society to participate in the blood campaigns. And this, in accordance with our ancestral values ​​of solidarity and fraternity. “The demand for platelets continues to increase and blood donation campaigns are almost at a standstill due to Covid-19. We have taken all necessary steps to ensure that donation operations are carried out under the best possible conditions, ”he explained.
For his part, the director of the Provincial Blood Transfusion Center of Kénitra expressed the wish that the inhabitants of the city get more involved in order to save the lives of patients, whose fate depends on this vital material.

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