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COVID-19: Indian Muslim youths break fast to donate blood to save lives of two children

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Patna, BIHAR :

‘Service to the humanity is the greatest religion’

Patna:

Tales of humanity and brotherhood have brought much-needed comfort to the people in distress as they battle the coronavirus pandemic, locking themselves in homes for the past 40 days. Two such incidents in four days stand out.

A man from the Indian state of Bihar broke his fast to donate blood in a bid to save the life of a little girl admitted to a government hospital. The heart-warming incident took place in Gopalganj district on Friday.

As per the report, the condition of three-year-old Nishtha Kumari, daughter of Ujjwal Singh from Kaithwali village, deteriorated suddenly on Friday after which she was admitted to a local government hospital. The girl had been suffering from thalassemia, a blood disorder in which the body makes an abnormal form or inadequate amount of haemoglobin.

Finding her condition critical, the doctors asked her parents to immediately arrange blood for her. Singh rushed to the local blood banks but returned disappointed. Subsequently, he contacted the District Blood Donor Committee (DBDC), which promised to help him. However, it wasn’t convincing.

Singh was pleasantly surprised when he found a youth, Waqar Ahmed, eagerly waiting for him once he returned to the hospital. “Someone told me you urgently need blood for your daughter. I have come to donate blood,” Ahmed said.

The youth broke his fast with a glass of juice and donated blood, helping save the little girl’s life.

“Service to the humanity is the greatest religion,” Waqar said. Singh said he had no words to express his gratitude.

In another incident from Jharkhand’s Giridih district, a Muslim youth broke his fast to donate blood so that a boy’s life could be saved.

Parents of eight-year-old Nikhil had been finding it hard to arrange blood for their child suffering from pneumonia duet to lockdown.

As a last resort, he sent a message to the local villagers to donate blood. As the news reached, a villager, Salim Ansari, rushed to the hospital on Wednesday and offered to donate blood. Without wasting a moment, Ansari broke his fast and donated his blood to the boy.

source: http://www.gulfnews.com / Gulf News / Home> World> Asia> India / by Lata Rani , Correspondent / May 09th, 2020

Jharkhand: Muslim youth breaks fast to donate blood to ailing Hindu boy

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Ranchi , JHARKHAND :

Ansari said that the moment he got to know that the child needed blood, he decided to save his life and left for Hazaribagh along with two others.

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Ranchi :

Amid hate messages on social media, a Muslim youth set an example for humanity by breaking his ‘Roza’ (fasting) to donate blood for an 8-year-old Hindu child who is suffering from Pneumonia in Hazaribagh on Tuesday.

Salim Ansari travelled over 50 km to donate blood after he got to know that the boy of his village needed blood to save his life.

The child Nikhil Kumar, suffering from pneumonia, is undergoing treatment at a nursing home in Hazaribagh and needed blood for his treatment.

When Ansari reached the hospital, doctors advised him to break his fast and eat something to be able to donate blood. Ansari immediately agreed to the doctor’s suggestion and donated blood.

“It does not mean that I have done any favour to anybody, Being a human being, it was my duty to save the life of the child,” said Ansari. No religion is
above humanity, he added.

Ansari said that the moment he got to know that the child needed blood, he decided to save his life and left for Hazaribagh along with two others.

According to Nikhil’s brother Faljeet Kumar, his brother is currently admitted to a private nursing home in Hazaribagh and urgently required A (+Ve) blood but he was not able to arrange it. The local blood bank also expressed its inability for the same due to the lockdown asking him to arrange on his own.

Even Faljeet could donate as he had already donated the blood to his brother last week. Losing all hopes, he called his father Bhikhari Mahto at his village Kusumraza under the Bagodar Block of Giridih and explained the entire situation. Bhikhari Mahto, a farmer by profession, further discussed the matter with other villagers and left the matter on the mercy of God.

Later, when Ansari got to know about it, he decided to save the life of the child by donating his blood and left for Hazaribagh. He was even intercepted by police at different places, but somehow he managed to convince them citing the urgency of the situation and reached there to save the life of the child.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Good News / by Mukesh Ranjan / Express News Service / May 06th, 2020