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Blood donation feature to be launched on Facebook in Vietnam

A feature for blood donations in Vietnam will be launched on Facebook social network on February 16, enabling donors to easily connect with blood reception facilities.
Blood donation feature to be launched on Facebook in Vietnam ảnh 1Feature for blood donations in Vietnam makes debut (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A feature for blood donations in Vietnam will belaunched on Facebook social network on February 16, enabling donors to easilyconnect with blood reception facilities.

Speaking at the opening of the annual Red Spring Festival,the largest blood donation event in Vietnam, on February 12, Director of theNational Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) Bach Quoc Khanhsaid that the feature was first launched in 2017 and has to date been applied in 43nations with over 100 million registrants.

It helps blood-receiving facilities to easily andquickly connect with donors, raise public awareness about safe blood donationand increase people's chances of accessing the nearest blood donation sites.

Bui Thi Hoa, President of the Vietnam Red Cross Society CentralCommittee, emphasised that over the past years, the voluntary blood donationmovement in Vietnam has been growing, meeting the blood demand for emergency casesand patient treatment.

The Red Spring Festival is held annually after the Lunar NewYear holiday, aims to help ensure sufficient blood supply for medical usewhich, in the past, often faced a serious shortage after the the country’s biggestand longest holiday.

First held in the spring of 2008, the festival has attractedhundreds of thousands of participants and received nearly 92,000 units so far.Most of localities nationwide and many agencies, businesses, and organisationshave also organised annual blood donation activities on this occasion.

This year’s festival in Hanoi will last for nine days, untilFebruary 20, expected to attract 10,000 donors and receive about 7,000 bloodunits.

During the period, people can donate at the NIHBT headquarters on Pham Van Bachstreet of Cau Giay district, the three fixed blood donation locations (No. 26on Luong Ngoc Quyen street, No. 132 on Quan Nhan street, and No. 10 of Alley122 on Lang street), as well as the cultural centre of Gia Lam district.

They can register to make donation viahttps://hienmau.vn/events/lehoixuanhong/ or the app “Hien mau”./.

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