This story is from March 2, 2017

Breaking the shackles: Muslim women donate blood in Murshidabad

Trinamool Mahila Congress (TMC) on Thursday organised a blood donation camp for women in Berhampur area of West Bengal's Murshidabad district.
Breaking the shackles: Muslim women donate blood in Murshidabad
Key Highlights
  • TMC today organised a blood donation camp for women in Berhampur area of West Bengal's Murshidabad district.
  • It was the first time that Murshidabad witnessed woman donors turning up in such a huge number, TMC said.
  • City lawyers and educationists have also extended support forwomen for doing social work.
BERHAMPUR: Trinamool Mahila Congress (TMC) on Thursday organised a blood donation camp for women in Berhampur area of West Bengal's Murshidabad district.
"It was the first time that Murshidabad witnessed woman donors turning up in such a huge number," TMC President Shahnawaz Begum said.
She also claimed that most of the families in Murshidabad are from minority community and are very conservative but this time women folk surprisingly came forward to donate blood.

Meanwhile, donors too claim that education and changing environment has helped them to come out of social shackles.
"Earlier, we weren't allowed to do any kind of social work but now situation has changed. Our families have become educated and open-minded," Nadira Begum, a blood donor from Jalangi area, said.
Other female donors too echoed Nadira views
Champa Bibi, a donor, accepts it was real difficult to make her family understand but she finally did it. Similarly, another donor Murshida Bibi convinced her family on the lines if women can join politics and become Sarpanch then why not blood donation.

"Today, women are in politics, have become sarpanchs, then why shouldn't we donate blood to help society," Murshida said.
City lawyers and educationists too have endorsed women for doing social work.
"The area was lagging back in education sector. Illiterate and uneducated people were unaware about the social development. But now things have changed, the locals have now begun to understand the importance of blood donation," Abu Bakkar Siddiqui, a city-based lawyer, said.
A local school teacher Ghulam Nabi said that Islam equates "saving one life to saving the whole world."
"Islam says if you save one life it means you are saving the whole world. It is seen that there are many minority patients who have anemia or have thalassemia in the hospitals. They need plenty of blood," Nabi said.
"The people have realized the whole thing and that's why Muslim women have started coming to donate blood in huge number," he added.
All the donors were thoroughly screened and the blood collection was carried out under aseptic conditions by qualified personnel under the supervision of doctors.
Report: Sirshendu Goswami
Courtesy: Ei Samay
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