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'Dami Le Watani campaign' for blood donation during Ramadan

[email protected] (Shodhan Prasad)
June 17, 2013
Dubai, Jun 17: Few enthusiastic members of Tulunadu with the wise leadership of Balakrishna Salian, Vice President of Mogaveers UAE have taken live interest in the blood donation campaign which is successfully running from many years now.

Their tireless support for this humanitarian cause is not only been applauded by various Community Associations of Karnataka but also by the Blood Donation Centre at Latifa Hospital and Al Ameen Dubai. Mogaveers UAE and Bala Salian would like to dedicate all the appreciation and success to the donors.

Serving this cause is a service to humanity in the nation where we live in for our livelihood.

Due to the current shortage of blood during Ramadan, the Blood Donation Center, Dubai have humbly requested these volunteers to support them with more blood donations during the holy Ramadan month. With this call the team have successfully booked almost 4 to 6 Community organisations of Karnataka for the blood donation during holy Ramadan.

The booked dates by the organisations, during Ramadan are:

11/7/2013 – Thiya Samaj UAE - 7:30 to 10 Pm

18/7/2013 – Konkan Bells UAE - 7:30 to 10 Pm

25/7/2013 – Vishwakarma Seva Samithi UAE - 7:30 to 10 Pm

More is needed and here comes request to all the Indian and Karnataka associations to come forward voluntarily for this great cause and donate blood during Ramadan.

Currently available timings and dates:

14th ,15th ,21st , 22nd, 23rd ,24th , 28th &  31st of July, 2013 &  4th & 5th of August 7:30pm to 10:00pm

Mogaveers UAE, hereby request all the Indian and specially Karnataka Associations and Community people to come forward for this noble humanitarian cause. There are 650 Children/adults who are suffering from rare disease (Thalassemia) and they need 75 units of Blood per day.

Other than that there are accident cases, heavy bleeding on daily basis including requirement for cancer/leukaemia patients. They also need blood for other Emirates inlcuding Sharjah and Ajman.

So there is a huge need for more Blood and it is our duty to save life by donating blood.  Donating blood would also decrease the possibility of having heart diseases and strokes. It also activates the bone marrow to produce new blood cells; hence please come forward and donate with love.

Those who are interested in saving a life by donating blood may please contact Balakrishna M Salian, Vice President of Mogaveers UAE and Promoter of Blood Donation Drive on 050 2441376.

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Media Release
June 24,2020

The Overseas Indian Cultural Congress (OICC), Bahrain, has charted aircrafts to repatriate stranded expatriates to India. 

Boby Parayil, General Secretary, OICC National Committee, Bahrain has thanked all those who supported in this cause.

“The aircrafts were not licensed and were in crisis until the last minute. Finally, Mohammed Mansoor, president of Bahrain chapter of Indian Overseas Congress approached IOC Middle East in charge Dr Arathi Krishna, who helped get permission to operate flight to Kozhikode,” he said in a release. 

All mandatory approvals from the Foreign Ministry of Affairs and other government officials were accomplished by Dr Arathi Krishna. OICC has expressed gratitude to her for her timely support, he said. 

OICC is also grateful to former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy for doing necessary arrangements to get all the approvals for flight landing in Kerala, he added.

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Agencies
August 8,2020

Dubai, Aug 7: One may call it good luck, but for two Indian expats it was God who prevented them at the last minute from boarding the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala, killing at least 18 people on board.

According to India's Civil Aviation Ministry, the Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Dubai to Kozhikode overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport on Friday evening. There were 184 passengers including 10 infants, 2 pilots and four cabin crew onboard the aircraft.

Noufal Moin Vetten, an Ajman resident working as an office boy in a Sharjah school, was booked to travel on the flight and had checked in as per schedule.

Recounting his miraculous escape, Vetten, a resident of Malappuram, Thirunavaya, whose visa was cancelled a week ago, told Gulf News: “I was handed my boarding pass, but when I reached immigration, they told me I had to pay a fine of Dh 1,000 (Rs 20,430) for overstay. I had only Dh 500 (Rs10,215) with me.

"I called my school PRO and he told me to come back. He said they would follow protocols and pay the fines before sending me,“ he said.

Vetten was disappointed and called his family to let them know.

“When I heard about the crash, I was saddened for all the passengers. But I'm so relieved I missed it. God has been really merciful,” said Vetten.

Afsal Parrakodan, a resident of Abu Dhabi, had a similar stroke of luck.

“My work visa was cancelled about a week ago. After getting my boarding pass, I was told I had to pay a fine of Dh1,000 at the immigration counter, but I had only Dh500 on me.”

“I was very keen to board the flight and be with my family. So I called a friend who brought me the additional Dh500, but by then, my baggage had been offloaded and the flight's doors were closed,” said Parrakodan.

“I was feeling very sad and called my mother to tell her I had missed the flight. But a few hours later, when I learnt of the crash, I couldn’t help but feel relieved and thankful to God for saving my life,“ said an overwhelmed Parrakodan who plans to fly back next week. 

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News Network
June 17,2020

Doha: Qatar Indian Social Forum (QISF) once again set an example that no caste, creed, language and religion comes as hurdle for their humanitarian services and helped to perform last rites of Ramesh who committed suicide in Doha-Qatar.

45-year-old Ramesh son of K. Nagan hailing from Panikulam, Thrissur district in Kerala, who was working as a tailor committed suicide in his house at Ruwias in Qatar on 30th May 2020.

On hearing this news, some of his friends in Kearla informed Mr. Shihab who is also from Thrissur and a member of QISF and the same was brought to the notice of QISF humanitarian team head Mr. Abdul Latheef Madikeri and Basheer Ahmed of Tamil Nadu.

Immediately, the QISF team intervened and contacted the family members of the deceased in India and discussed the matter and consequences of sending the body back home to India in this pandemic COVID 19 situation.

Considering the prevailing situation, the family members gave the consent to bury the body in Qatar itself.

QISF team collected the required documents from the family of the deceased and managed to clear all the necessary formalities from the police department, Health Department, Embassy of India and Hamad Medical Corporation.

Finally, the body of the deceased was buried in Qatar on 7th June 2020 and the copies of all the relevant documents have been handed over to the family members.

The family members of the deceased thanked and applauded the leaders and all the members of QISF for their effective and on time humanitarian service rendered even in this pandemic crisis and having no bias.

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