Hanoi youths help bolster national blood bank
(VOV) -Hanoi’s young people donated more than 1,000 units of blood in a festival on January 18 to tackle blood shortages at hospitals during the coming Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.
The event was jointly held by the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion and the Hanoi Youth Blood Donation Mobilisation Association as part of activities to mark the Association’s 20th anniversary (Jan. 24).
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Over the past two decades, more than 260,000 units of blood were donated in a bid to increase national blood stocks and save the lives of more patients needing blood.
At the ceremony, 20 young volunteers were honoured for their contributions to the blood donation campaign.
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