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She passed away 28th July 2008 10pm at 57 after fighting leukemia for more than one year. Innalillah wainna ilaihi rajiun. That would be my late sister Zunaida Zulkifli. A strong woman indeed. We arrived at the hospital earlier the afternoon at about 2pm. Sis Jima, Jiha, Kak Asiah, AbaChit, Ana, and Shazlan were there. The sight of her poor condition face was sorrowful. We all greeted each other before I proceeded to close upon arwah. Her eyes was closed shut, her face was spotted with broken blood vessels and she had a O2 tube going into her mouth and plasters were all over her face and head. On top of that, many smaller tubes with antibiotics, pain killer etc from syringe pumps surrounded her. BP and pulse machines were there too. So was a life supporting equipment. She had been laying there under sedative since Sunday.

Does donating blood invalidate wudoo’? Can a muslim donate blood, and if so can he read salaah straight after donating blood? Praise be to Allaah. If it is necessary to carry out a blood transfusion, there is no sin on the patient, the doctors or the donor, because of the following: Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “… and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind…” [al-Maa’idah 5:32] . (Melayu) . This aayah indicates the virtue of being the cause of saving the life of someone whom it is forbidden to kill, and there is no doubt that the doctors and blood donors are among the causes of saving the life of patients who are at risk of dying if a blood transfusion is not carried out. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “He has forbidden you only the dead animals, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that which is slaughtered as a sacrifice ...

Preparing Donors for Allogeneic Transplants Blood stem cells are extracted most often from the peripheral blood of donors and occasionally from their bone marrow. Because there are significantly fewer stem cells in peripheral blood than in bone marrow, doctors prepare peripheral blood donors by injecting them with a series of growth factors to move blood stem cells from their marrow into their bloodstream. This increases the blood stem cells concentration 10- to 100-fold in the blood. If stem cells are harvested from bone marrow, the donor is placed under general anesthesia. In a procedure that takes about an hour, marrow is removed through a large needle inserted into the donor's pelvic bones, and it is processed to remove blood and bone fragments. After the collection is completed, the donor may be given a transfusion of his or her own red blood cells from units of blood that were self-donated a week earlier. Apheresis: Harvesting Stem Cells From Peripheral Blood ...