Baku / 20.09.18 / Turan: According to the latest data of the Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan, during today's blood donation, 5,430 believers donated 2403 liters of blood. The blood donation campaign was held in several mosques of the country, and was timed to the mourning of Ashura. -02B-
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2018 September 20 (Thursday) 15:05:14
In Ashura, believers donated 1,435 liters of blood
Baku / 20.09.18 / Turan: By 14:00 on September 20 - the day of Ashura, believers of Azerbaijan donated 1435 liters of blood, according to the press service of the Ministry of Health of the country. The collected blood will be used for the treatment of those in need, as well as for the manufacture of drugs for patients with thalassemia and hemophilia.
Ashura is the peak of the mourning month of Muharram, celebrated by the Shiites in memory of Hussein - the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and the son of Imam Ali, who died along with his supporters in an unequal battle with the Umayyad detachments near the town of Kärbel (modern Iraq) in 680.-03D -
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