"Hanh trinh Do" (Red Journey), the country’s largest-scale blood donation campaign, has contributed to raising awareness about voluntary blood donation and handling blood shortages over the past 10 years.
Vietnam is marking International Thalassemia Day on May 8 with a message calling on people to conduct pre-marriage counselling and health check-ups for their own happiness and the country’s prosperity, the General Office for Population and Family Planning said on April 12.
If both husband and wife carry Thalassemia gene, they should get consultations from doctors on how to give birth to healthy children without carrying the gene before their conception.
The Hanh Trinh Do (Red Journey) 2018 blood donation campaign has organised 100 events across 26 provinces and cities nationwide, attracting thousands of participants and collecting more than 42,000 blood units.
Nearly 4,200 units of blood were collected from the youth and other volunteers in the final collection drive of the annual blood-donation campaign Hanh trinh do (Red Journey) 2017.
More than 1,500 blood donors have taken part in a festival in Quy Nhon city, the central province of Binh Dinh as part of the Hanh Trinh Do (red journey), a nationwide annual blood donation drive.
A torch was burned at the national trig point GPS 0001 at the Ca Mau cape cultural park on July 1 to kick off the fifth Hanh Trinh Do (red journey), a nationwide annual blood donation drive.
Volunteers participating in the Red Journey, an annual blood donation campaign, started their northern leg in Hanoi on July 10 which will travel through 12 northern cities and provinces.
The first national workshop on thalassemia - a genetic blood disease - and the second Pan-Asian Conference on Haemoglobinopathies and Rare Anaemias are taking place in Hanoi.
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