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President Mohammad Khatami here on Wednesday
highlighted this year's observance of blood-drive day (Thursday) by
donating blood, IRNA reported from Tehran.
Accompanied by Health Minister Masoud Pezeshkian and the head of
the national Blood Transfusion Organization, Ali Akbar Pour-Fatollah,
the president set a humanitarian example by donating his own blood.
Pour-Fatollah, who briefed the president and his entourage on the
various activities of the organization, said that his organization is
self-sufficient in blood supply for medical purposes.
A total of 1,450,000 units of blood were donated in a nationwide
blood-drive campaign in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended
March 21, 2003), he informed.
The Blood Transfusion Organization has 3,800 personnel working
in 97 centers throughout the country, he said.
After donating blood, President Khatami talked with reporters
gathered at the organization's premises.
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