More than 1,000 students from 60 local colleges and universities, and employees of the military-run Viettel Telecom, last Sunday enthusiastically participated in the “Red Sunday 2012” held at the Hanoi-based National Planning Exhibition Center.
Despite the undesirable weather of drizzle and cold wind, the donors raised a total of 360 units of blood.
The event was jointly held by Tien Phong newspaper, the Hanoi Communist Youth Union, National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT), and Viettel, as a response to the call of the National Steering Board for Voluntary Blood Donation to launch the “Voluntary blood donation on Tet campaign” and the “Red Spring Campaign 2012” in localities around the country.
Themed “The Life of You and Me,” the campaign seeks to encourage youths and students in the capital city to donate blood to help cure and bring hope to unfortunate patients during the coming Lunar New Year.
Initiated in 2009 by the NIHBT and Tien Phong newspaper, the campaign aims to solve the blood shortage during the Tet holiday, since demand for blood usually rises against a drop in the number of donors.
In three years of running the event, NIHBT has received more than 2,000 units of blood, helping to save many unfortunate patients.
Meanwhile, also last Sunday, the National Steering Board on Voluntary Blood Donation of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho also joined the “Voluntary blood donation on Tet campaign” movement by kicking off its “Red Spring Festival 2012.”
The campaign raised more than 300 units of blood from local donors.
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