Biggest spring blood donation event to kick off on February 6
The Xuan hong (red spring) festival – the biggest annual blood donation campaign of the season – will begin on February 6, expecting 6,000 units of the vitality liquid.
Hanoi (VNA) – The Xuan hong (red spring)festival – the biggest annual blood donation campaign of the season – will beginon February 6, expecting 6,000 units of the vitality liquid.
According to the organiser – the National Institute ofHematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT), at the one-week event, donors can visit one of the seven venues in Hanoi - including the institute, agricultural generalhospital, and the People’s Committee headquarters of Trau Quy town.
A total of 100,615 blood units were collected after the past15 editions of the campaign.
The NIHBT said between December 2022 and January this year –the time around the Lunar New Year Festival – the biggest and longesttraditional event in Vietnam, it received 57,000 units, sustaining areserve of 12,000 units for the holiday period, much higher than the levelsposted in previous years./.
An event honouring 100 outstanding blood donors nationwide, particularly during COVID-19 outbreaks, is slated for mid-August, as part of myriad activities marking World Blood Donor Day (June 14) in Vietnam.
A blood donation festival kicked off in Hanoi on July 26, as part of the 10th “Hanh trinh do” (Red Journey), a communication and blood donation campaign underway in 46 cities and provinces nationwide.
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The main festival of the 15th Chu Nhat Do (Red Sunday) 2023 blood donation campaign will officially take place at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology in Hanoi on December 18 in an effort to overcome the blood shortage situation in hospitals during the upcoming Tet (Lunar new year) holidays.
More than 1,000 State employees, public security officers, and students joined the annual 15th Red Sunday – a voluntary blood donation drive, in the central province of Thanh Hoa on December 25.
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