The information was reported at the closing ceremony of the nine-day event on February 20.

Speaking at the ceremony, Dr. Tran Ngoc Que from the National Blood Centre, affirmed that the annual event is a festival of kindness as it shows the benevolent spirit of volunteers and blood donors in voluntary blood donation activities.

15th “Red Spring” festival collects 8,600 blood units.

The change in public awareness, and the enthusiastic response of those who are willing to register to donate blood, and the companionship and efforts of volunteers of the Hanoi Youth Association for Blood Donation, are among factors to the success of the festival, he said.

He underlined the necessity to organise similar events in 2022 to collect more blood units for medical treatment and emergency activities.

The Xuan Hong festival is one of the year’s largest annual blood donation events. It was jointly launched by the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) and the Hanoi Youth Association for Blood Donation in 2008, and conducted nationwide in 2010.

It aims to help address the shortage of blood for treatment during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

Over the past 15 years, about 100,000 units of blood have been collected.

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Thousands of people join blood donation event in Hanoi

Thousands of people participated in the blood donation week that was kicked off in Hanoi on September 28 by the Youth Union of Centrally-run Agencies Bloc and the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion.

HCMC expats donate blood as lockdown causes shortage

As HCMC faces a blood shortage while grappling with its worst Covid outbreak, many foreigners have shown their support, hoping to save more lives.

HCMC in urgent need of O blood

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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.  

Source: NDO/VNA