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The Tissue Bank, licensed by the Ministry of Health, would receive, store and transport tissue samples, said the hospital's director Tran Binh Giang on Tuesday.

Vietnam recently opens its first tissue bank in Hanoi. Photo by AFP.

The bank could also supply tissue samples to medical facilities and similar banks around the world.

Currently, Vietnam has only two laboratories which store and research tissues in Hanoi’s Medical University and HCMC’s Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine.

Vietnamese doctors have performed around 1,500 organ transplants since 1992, according to official statistics from the health ministry. That leaves more than 16,000 patients suffering from heart, kidney, liver and lung diseases and more than 6,000 blind people awaiting donations.

The country aims to carry out intestinal, uterine, genital and facial transplants by 2020.

People can register to donate their organs at either Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi or Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

Yen Dung honors typical blood donors

(BGO) – The second voluntary blood donation festival in 2018 was held on September 9 in Yen Dung district, Bac Giang province in connection with a ceremony honoring the typical collectives, families and individuals in blood donating campaign. 

 

700 organizations and individuals honored as outstanding blood donors

(BGO) –The Steering Board for voluntary blood donation (VBD) campaign in the northern province of Bac Giang on June 12 held the tenth honoring ceremony for the outstanding blood donors in 2018 in response to the World Blood Donation Day June 14. 

 

Tran Dinh Hieu honored as national outstanding blood donor

(BGO) – A ceremony has recently been organized in Hanoi under a joint collaboration between the National Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation and the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion to honor the outstanding blood donors nationwide.

 

100 outstanding blood donors honored

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on June 9 to honor 100 outstanding blood donors from 63 cities and provinces nationwide and six ministries and sectors.

 

Outstanding blood donors to be praised at Hanoi ceremony on June 9

A ceremony will be organized in Hanoi on June 9 to honor 100 outstanding volunteer blood donors from across the country as an event to celebrate World Blood Donor Day 2018, according to a press conference held on June 7.

 

Source: VnExpress