The entire nation is striving to mobilise 1.5 percent of the population to donate 1.5 million blood units this year, heard a January 14 conference held by the national steering committee for blood donation.
Hanoi (VNA) – The entire nation is strivin🦂g to mobilise 1.5 percent of the population to donate 1.5 mill🧸ion blood units this year, heard a January 14 conference held by the national steering committee for blood donation.
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.
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 further 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./.
The Department of External Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City in collaboration with the municipal Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Thai Consulate General in the city on December 4 organised a blood donation event on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the establishment of Thailand-Vietnam diplomatic relations (1976-2021). It was also an activity in tribute to the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulayadej.
Organisers expect to collect 45,000 - 50,000 blood units on Chu Nhat Do 2022 (Red Sunday), a blood donation campaign that will officially open at the People’s Police Academy in Hanoi on January 16.
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At a blood donation event (Photo: VNA)
