Dawat-i-Islami collects 18,000 bottles for Thalassemia patients during lockdown.

MULTAN -- Dawat-i-Islam (DI) collected 18,000 bottles of blood For the patients of Thalassemia during the lockdown through erecting camps in 106 cities across the country.

A spokesperson of DI informed reporter on Monday that Ameer Dawat-i-Islami Ameer, Maulana Ilyas Qadri urged upon people specially his followers to not only donate blood for Thalassemia patients, but extend financial help to them in this testing times of COVID-19 pandemic.

Saying Labaik to the call, the followers of DI managed to collect 18,000 bottles within 20 days by erecting camps in 106 cities of the country, he stated adding that about 49,000 patients of the blood related disease suffering from it according to health experts.

He said it was difficult for Thalassemia patients to visit hospitals regularly these days because of Cornovirsus, adding, besides that donors were also reluctant to come due to which they are facing shortage of blood.

The spokesperson said from Multan City, they were able to...