A man donates his blood at the Red Spring Festival in province on March 5 (Photo: VNA)Dien Bien (VNA) – The Red Spring
Festival, a voluntary blood donation event, is taking place in the northern
mountainous province of Dien Bien on March 5, with more than 300 people coming
to register.
This activity aims to encourage people in good
health from all social strata to donate blood, helping to address the blood
shortage in medical treatment after the Lunar New Year holiday, especially
after a hiatus in donation activities due to the resurgence.
Disease
prevention measures were carried out to ensure
safety for participants, organisers said.
The event is expected to collect more than 210
blood units.
According to the Dien Bien steering committee
for voluntary blood donation, this movement has been developing extensively and
intensively in the province over the past years, with an increasing number of
donors. Donation are now not limited to youngsters or State employees but have
been expanded to people from all social strata.
Apart from the , other annual
events to encourage blood donation have also been maintained, it noted, adding
that clubs of blood donors have actively worked to serve emergency needs at the
province’s general hospital.
The National Steering Committee for Voluntary
has set a goal to collect over 1.5 million blood units in 2021,
with 99 percent of which donated by volunteers. The rate of blood donors
in the population is hoped to reach 1.6 percent this year.
Director of the committee’s standing office Le
Gia Tien said at a recent conference that last year, thanks to many initiatives
and great efforts to overcome difficulties caused by COVID-19, the committee
received approximately 1.4 million units of blood, helping millions of
patients.
The majority of blood units were donated
by volunteers, equivalent to nearly 1.5 percent of the
population. Half of the givers donated their blood more than once./.
Source: VietnamPlus
