Blood donation for Iraq

Blood donation for Iraq

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: The Red Cross office at the South
Sulawesi capital Makassar have collected 300 bags of blood
donations from locals who want to help Iraqi war victims.

"When the war in Iraq raged, the Muslim and non Muslim
community here came to the South Sulawesi Red Cross office to
have their blood taken as a show of solidarity toward the
oppressed people of Iraq," said the province's Red Cross head
Andi Nurdin Mappewali on Monday.

Thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed or injured in
the Gulf war which broke out late March. Fighting stopped since
mid April, but many hospitals in Baghdad and other Iraq cities
still face various shortcomings to treat wounded people.

Andi said that the local Red Cross office was waiting for its
headquarter in Jakarta to pick up the 300 bags. -- Antara