The 2023 Highlights of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) in Asia-Pacific workshop opened in Hanoi on March 10.

VOV.VN - Hanoi's Center for Disease Control announced on March 2 that the capital has recorded its first human case of Streptococcus suis, a kind of bacteria that comes from pigs, this year.

Samsung Vietnam on February 15 launched a blood donation programme at its factories in response to Red Sunday 2023 and resolve the blood shortage in treatment and emergencies after Tet (Lunar New Year).

VOV.VN - The 2023 Red Spring Festival, the largest national blood donation festival, was launched at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion in Hanoi on February 6, hoping to receive approximately 8,000 blood units.

VOV.VN - The Lunar New Year (Tet) is a time for family reunion and travel, but for child cancer patients receiving treatment in hospital they do not feel that joy.

As many as 152 traffic accidents occurred in the country during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, from January 20 to January 26, a year-on-year decrease of 12 cases, according to the Ministry of Transport.

Vietnam is hoping that 1.5% of the population will donate blood to collect 1.47 million units next year.

VOV.VN - Amid the dengue fever epidemic remaining complicated with a number of serious cases, the organizing board of the Red Sunday campaign has called on those who are healthy enough to actively participate in platelet donation.

VOV.VN - The custom of twinning two persons of different blood lines as brothers is popular in Vietnam, for the Mnong in the central province of Dak Lak, the twinning ceremony ties the two persons and their families.

VOV.VN - A total of 19 collectives and individuals were honoured for their outstanding contributions to volunteer work this year, at an awards ceremony held in Hanoi on December 3.