Hanoi (VNA) – The blood donation campaign “Red Sunday” was held at 70 placesin various localities nationwide on January 13, aiming to collect about 50,000blood units.
InHo Chi Minh City, the event gathered more than 3,000 local students, workersand public servants who donated more than 6,000 blood units.
Addressingthe opening of the event, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen VanPhuc said that the campaign is of humanitarian significance as the demands forblood at hospitals normally increase during the Lunar New Year holiday which iscoming in about three weeks.
Thecampaign was initiated by the Tien Phong (Vanguard) Newspaper in 2009. Lastyear, it was held in 25 cities and provinces, collecting more than 32,000 bloodunits.
Alsoon January 13, the northern province of Bac Giang held the Red Sunday programmeand launched the Red Spring Festival 2019, which will run through March 15. Theprovince targets at least 6,000 people engaging in the event and 3,000 bloodunits, completing 20 percent of the goal for the whole year.
Thisis the fourth year that Bac Giang has opened the Red Spring festival by the RedSunday event.
Thesame day, nearly 1,000 youngsters in the central city of Da Nang flocked to thelocal Red Sunday site. The city expected to receive about 800 blood units inthe day.
Atthe same time, in Thanh Hoa city of central Thanh Hoa province, 1,500 volunteersalso donated about 700 blood units during the Red Sunday event.-VNA
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