At the event to review blood donation campaigns in 2021 and deploy tasks for 2022, President of the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) Bui Thi Hoa made a series of recommendations toward achieving such targets.

1.5 million blood units to be mobilised in 2022.

Related offices must build plans to set out quotas suitable to each areas and sectors as well as refresh their communications works in line with the pandemic situation, she stressed, adding turther activities should be conducted to raise people’s awareness on the benefits and safety of blood donations and to attract more donors, while donation campaigns should be operated safely following pandemic-prevention measures.

According to her, widespread impacts and complicated developments of Covid-19 in 2021 seriously affected the work.

Throughout the year, close to 10,000 blood donation communications and mobilisation campaigns took place, attracting more than 1.5 million participants. More groups joined the donations, including military personnel, civil servants, Buddhist monks and nuns, and religious dignitaries.

As a result, more than 1.3 million blood units were collected nationwide, basically meeting first aid and treatment demand, particularly during Covid-19 outbreaks. Nearly 20,000 blood units were sent to aid cities and provinces in the south as the fourth wave of the pandemic in Vietnam began in April last year.

HCMC in urgent need of O blood

With social distancing preventing regular donors from visiting blood banks, HCMC is facing a severe shortage of O blood.

Blood sharing amid pandemic

(BGO) – Amid the complicated development of Covid-19 pandemic, many children suffering from hemolytic anemia in Son Dong district (Bac Giang province) can not go to hospital to get blood transfusion. The youth in the district Public Security voluntarily donate their blood to save the life of the little patients.  

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Chief of provincial Youth Federation Office Vi The Son: "Captain" of many clubs with a record of 46 blood donations

(BGO) – Vi The Son, Chief of the Office of the provincial Youth Union, is well-known for making the most blood donations in the province, an official of the provincial Red Cross Society said at a Red Sunday event that recently took place in Tan Yen district.

Bac Giang receives nearly 8,000 blood units

(BGO) – The Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation (VBD) in Bac Giang province has coordinated with the Steering Board for VBD in Lang Giang district and Vietnam German Hospital to organize VBD Festival in Tien Luc commune, Lang Giang district in response of the Day for Voluntary Blood Donation April 7.

Source: NDO/VNA