According to the Ministry of Health, over the past 25 years, since the first organ transplant in Vietnam in 1992, the number of organ transplants performed across the nation is still small compared to the large and increasing number of patients awaiting tissue and organ sources for transplantation. 

Staff of Hanoi Red Cross receive cards recognising their donation of tissues and organs.

Many of them with impaired heart, kidney, liver, and lung function are struggling to live, but very few of them have the opportunity to undergo organ transplants because of the scarce number of organ donors.

Promoting the nation’s humanitarian tradition, in 2019, the Hanoi Red Cross is striving for 100% of the association's establishments to propagate widely among the public on the issue and launch registration to donate tissues and organs, targeting at least 300 people to donate their organs to help others after brain death. The society also attaches the donation registration to the launch of blood donation drives.

At the ceremony, all staff from the Hanoi Red Cross, along with 40 locals, voluntarily registered to donate their organs. The association received 54 applications at the launch and will send them to the Vietnam National Coordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplantation.

Sharing at the programme, Chairman of Hanoi Red Cross Nguyen Sy Truong said that registering to donate tissues and organs after brain death not only brings new life to patients in need but also helps society to become better and more humane.

He also expressed his association’s wish to receive support and voluntarily registrations from the Red Cross staff and volunteers, as well as from the community, to replicate the kindhearted act, thus opening up more opportunities for patients to have a better life.

Outstanding family in blood donation

(BGO) – All members of the family of Luong Van Hoa and Nguyen Thi Kim Dung in Dong hamlet, Tan My commune, Bac Giang city have actively participated in the blood donation campaigns for years. 

 

Completing donation campaign to build humanitarian house

(BGO) – From October 26 till the end of November 4, the Heart Connection Club (under the Bac Giang provincial Red Cross Society) coordinated with the charitable clubs of Bac Giang Humanitarian Porridge and 1977 Dinh Ty to launch the donating campaign to raise the expense to build the humanitarian house for the specially difficult households in Son Dong district. 

 

Bac Giang launches blood donation festival themed “Light up the dreams”

(BGO) – The Steering Board for blood donation in the northern province of Bac Giang and Bac Giang Blood Club on October 21co-organized the blood donation festival themed “Light up the dreams” in 2018.

 

Vietnam presents donation to aid Japan’s flood relief

The Vietnamese Government has presented Japan with a 100,000 USD donation to aid the reconstruction effort after the country was severely hit by torrential rains and floods earlier this month.

 

Vietnam sets organ donation record with 16 lives saved in one month

First time ever that the country has received four organ donors in a month at the Viet-Duc Hospital in Hanoi.

 

Source: NDO