COTABATO CITY — Police personnel, members of the Philippine Marines, and their counterparts in the Army donated blood during a bloodletting session in Cotabato City on Sunday, a cross-section humanitarian effort for marginalized beneficiaries.
The bloodletting activity was jointly organized by the Cotabato Host Lions Club International District 301-E and the Philippine Navy’s 5th Marine Battalion based in Cotabato City, supported by the Cotabato Regional Medical Center, the Cotabato City Health Office, and the health ministry of the Bangsamoro regional government.
More than 40 combined Marine servicemen, personnel of the Cotabato City Police Office, members of an Army mechanized unit in Maguindanao del Norte, and civilians lined up and donated blood during the bloodletting event at the headquarters of the 5th Marine Battalion.
The blood collected during the bloodletting activity will be kept in a blood bank, earmarked for impoverished needy patients in government hospitals and dispensaries around. — John Felix M. Unson
