As many as 100 outstanding voluntary blood donors were honoured during a ceremony in Hanoi on June 5.

Cho Ray Hospital announced on May 4 that it has performed organ transplantation from a brain-dead donor for six recipients.

More than 200 health professionals from the University Medical Centre Ho Chi Minh City (UMC) successfully performed organ procurement and transplantation from a brain-dead donor for four recipients on January 25.

Vietnam has emerged as Southeast Asia's leader in organ transplantation, performing over 1,000 procedures annually, but it faces significant challenges in brain-dead donor donations, according to a health official.

Thirty years after the blood donation movement was officially launched (January 24, 1994 - January 24, 2024), Vietnam has mobilised and received over 21.3 million units of blood, with the number of volunteer donors hitting 99%, according to the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang on March 26 received Senior Executive Vice President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Yamada Junichi who is on a visit to Vietnam.

Three Vietnamese donors with a rare blood type have helped save the life of a 64-year-old British man with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP).

The Pink Spring blood donation this year kicked off on February 18, the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, earlier than in previous years, said the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with 100 outstanding voluntary blood donors nationwide on July 29, who are in Hanoi for a special programme honouring their good deeds.

VOV.VN - A conference on trade connection between Vietnamese and Japanese businesses was held in Tokyo, Japan, as part of a broad array of economic exchanges and co-operation activities taking place on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between both sides.