The event drew the participation of 150 officers, laborers and youth members working at Ha Lang Railway Branch. All the participants and volunteers seriously conducted preventive measures such as wearing face masks, using hand sanitizer.

Many donors donate their blood at the blood donating festival launched at the provincial Inter-Agency Headquarter.

The Organization Board received 108 blood units meeting the Ministry of Health’s standard. All the bloods were directly delivered to the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion to supplement to the national blood bank for emergency case and patient treatment.

Since the beginning of this year, the provincial VBD Steering Committee has coordinated with local organizations, agencies and schools to organize 13 festivals and receive 5,375 blood units, making up 40 percent of the target assigned by the Central Steering Committee in 2020.

Amid the Covid-19 complicated development, it is really hard to hold concentrated event for voluntary blood donation. Thus, adding to effectively operate the clubs to be on duty and spare the source to donate blood to save the patient 24 hours, the provincial Red Cross Society calls on every qualified person to directly visit the medical facilities to give the blood.

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Do Quyen