Legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar donated blood on Monday to celebrate World Blood Donor Day. He urged his fans and followers to come forward and donate his blood for a good cause. He shared the news on Twitter, where he requested everyone to come in touch with a blood bank and donate.

World Blood Donor Day is celebrated on June 14 every year. Sachin Tendulkar made people aware of it by coming in front and donated the blood himself.

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The Master Blaster had earlier posted a video encouraging Mumbaikars to come forward for the blood donation camp organised by the Lalbaugcha Raja organising committee. Recently during his birthday, he had promised to donate blood and World Blood Donor Day has seen him living up to his promise.

In the video attached in his tweet, he talked about how blood donation can help in saving lives as timely availability can be handy.

See the video here;

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Sachin has been involved in activities that spread awareness in society. Earlier, he has been seen raising his voice to follow the traffic rules properly and urged people to always use a helmet while driving.

Earlier this year, he was tested positive for Covid-19 and was hospitalized. Later on, he contributed to ‘Mission Oxygen’ in order to help the country fight the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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“The second wave of COVID has put our healthcare system under immense pressure. Providing oxygen for a large number of serious COVID patients is the need of the hour. It is heartening to see how people are rising to the occasion. A group of 250 young entrepreneurs have launched Mission Oxygen to raise funds for importing oxygen concentrators and donating them to hospitals across the country,” Tendulkar had written in a statement on Twitter.

“I’ve helped by contributing to the cause and hope that their effort soon reaches out to many more hospitals across India. Your support when I was playing was invaluable and helped me succeed. Today, we have to stand together behind everyone that is working hard to fight this pandemic,” he added.