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Lions Club of Guwahati Greater felicitates plasma donors

| @indiablooms | Dec 08, 2020, at 10:58 pm

Guwahati/IBNS: Lions Club of Guwahati Greater has felicitated five youths who recovered from COVID-19 infections and donated their plasma for treatment of other critical patients.

During a programme held in Guwahati on Tuesday, Assam state health minister Pijyush Hazarika and officials of Lions Club felicitated the plasma donors by providing Rs 5000 and certificate each.

Lions Club of Guwahati Greater and National Health Mission, Assam have jointly taken up an initiative during COVID-19 pandemic to save lives by mobilizing the persons who tested positive and recovered from the deadly virus infections to come forward and donate their plasma.

An official of Lions Club of Guwahati Greater said they have so far donated 235 plasma to the COVID-19 patients.

“We will continue our drive by donating plasma for treatment of critical COVID-19 patients until vaccine will come up. We appeal to the cures COVID-19 patients to come forward and donate their plasma,” the official of Lions Club of Guwahati Greater said.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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