Pho Mon Pagoda organizes voluntary blood donation festival
(Baonghean.vn) - The blood donation session was held in the grounds of Pho Mon Pagoda with the message "To live is to love".
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| For the first time, Pho Mon Pagoda organized a humanitarian blood donation. Photo: Huy Thu |
On the morning of June 20, Pho Mon Pagoda, Nghi Lien Commune, Vinh City, coordinated with the Provincial Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center to organize the 2020 humanitarian blood donation program.
The blood donation session was held in the grounds of Pho Mon Pagoda with the message "To live is to love", with nearly 60 volunteers, including monks, nuns, and Buddhists living at the pagoda, donating blood. At the end of the blood donation session, the Organizing Committee collected dozens of units of blood.
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| The joy of monks and Buddhists when participating in humanitarian blood donation. Photo: Huy Thu |
Venerable Thich Quang Bao - abbot of Pho Mon pagoda said: Voluntary blood donation is a noble act, contributing to ensuring blood supply for patient treatment and emergency care.
This is the first time Pho Mon Pagoda has organized voluntary blood donation at the pagoda and is the opening activity for a series of activities on the occasion of the great ceremony of casting the statue of Amitabha Buddha.
