Provision of Blood in an emergency for an individual or more is an important social and religious responsibility. Quran says” To save a person is as to save humanity”. MAWA has played a significant role in arranging blood donors whenever being called by peoples at any time. Our Health department is working for providing blood donation services from last 3 years.

History: MAWA started it blood donation services by mobilizing the young volunteers to give their bloods at various emergency situations. These emergencies may happen due to certain disasters or due to someone’s personal emergency needs like operations etc.
This service was initially conducted by maintaining the list of donors and then informing them telephonically or through messages in time of any emergency need. However the work entered in to new phase, when our first blood donation camp was held in Muharram’s Central Procession in Islamabad in 2007 for receiving the blood bags from donors.

This camp was arranged with the collaboration of District Blood Transfusion Unit (Thelassaemia Center) Rawalpindi for the storage of blood bags.
An agreement was made with the blood bank to issue us the donated blood bags whenever we request for any of our recipient in future.
The next major progress held last year when we started Blood Grouping and Blood Testing Services by our own medical team. You all know that the ratio of blood diseases like Hepatitis B & C is increasing very rapidly due to usage of unclean drinking water by mostly peoples in Pakistan, which generated a need of blood tests prior to donate it to any patient.
A Medical / Blood lab was also established at Al-Murtaza Clinic Islamabad for Blood Grouping, Hepatitis B and C test and sugar test. Moreover the medical camping activity is now also made focused on this matter. Peoples at the camps are given the awareness lectures for blood grouping and testing.
MAWA is charging Rs. 70 for villages and Rs. 100 for cities for the Hepatitis B and C tests. However the market rate is Rs. 350 which is very high for the peoples.
We annually arrange medical/blood camps during the 9th and 10th Muharram-al-Haram and Safar-al-Muzafar’s Central Procession at G-6/2 Chowk, Islamabad and Fowara chowk. A team of doctors, paramedical staff and volunteers serves the mourners with medicines and ambulance service.
The detail of blood donation services is as follows:
• Number of Camps: 14 Camps
• Number of Blood Bags: 415 Bags
• Number of Blood Donors: 260 registered volunteers
• Blood bags donated so far: 500 Bags

APPEAL FOR DONATIONS TO ESTABLISH MAWA BLOOD BANK!!!
After observing the growing demands of frequent blood requirements MAWA is planning to establish its own Blood Bank. Feasibility is prepared with an initial investment of around 12 Hundred Thousand for technical equipments (Fridge, Analyzer etc) only.
The rooms and other logistic support are already available. Interested donors are requested to come forward for this noble cause.