A newly-built facility of the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion was inaugurated on August 14 in Yen Hoa ward in Cau Giay district, Hanoi.

Addressing the inaugural ceremony, Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu, emphasised that this is the first time the ministry has built a complete, synchronised and modern facility and asked the institute to operate effectively, helping reduce overloading at central hospitals.

Construction of the Institute began on December 25, 2006 on an area of 2,100 sq.m.

The 300-patient bed institute is equipped with modern medical technologies to diagnose and treat all related-blood diseases. It also has a blood transfusion centre with the capacity of 150,000 units of blood per year./.