Bathinda, May 22 -- The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bathinda, organised a novel community drive for hair donation to support cancer patients on Wednesday. A total of 50 doctors, paramedic staff and family members of the cancer patients donated hair at the event.

The stock of donated hair will be dispatched to New Delhi where a voluntary organisation, Join Together, will make wigs by using the natural hair. "These wigs will come to AIIMS for free distribution among the patients under treatment at the institute. A team of professional hairdressers gave voluntary services for today's event," said Dr Sapna Marcus Bhatty, additional professor in the radiation oncology department and brain behind the initiative.

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