At the ceremony to announce the establishment of the national blood centre (Photo: dantri.com.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – The National Institute of Haematology and Blood
Transfusion (NIHBT) on April 4 announced the ’s decision to
set up a under the institute.
Director of the institute Bach Quoc Khanh said that the centre, equipped with
modern technology and high profession will support the development of blood
transfusion sector in the country.
It also creates a premise to set up a national blood centre under the Ministry
of Health, he added.
Carrying out the World Bank’s Regional Blood Transfusion Centres Project, the
institute built a modern transfusion blood centre with capacity of 90,000 blood
units per year. Particularly, the institute received 303,462 blood units in
2017 and the number is expected to increase to 600,000 units by 2030.
The centre is established to organise blood transfusion and reserve blood for
national security.
NIHBT Deputy Director Pham Tuan Duong is assigned as the director of the blood
centre.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
