The annual event is organised by Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper, the National Steering Committee on Traffic Safety and the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusions (NIHBT).

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“The 12th Red Sunday 2020 is scheduled to take place in 40 provinces and cities nationwide from mid-December 2019 to the end of January 2020 and receive at least 50,000 units of blood,” said Le Xuan Son, head of the organisation board and editor-in-chief of the newspaper at a press conference on December 18 in Hanoi.

According to Son, blood collection from Red Sunday events has increased remarkably over the past 11 years, from 8,419 units in 2014 to nearly 50,000 units in 2019. More than 160,000 blood units were collected over the past 11 Red Sunday events.

“During this year’s blood donation campaign we encouraged people to donate larger volumes of blood, from 250ml to 350ml and 450ml,” said the National Blood Centre Deputy Director Tran Ngoc Que.

Que said that frequent and repeated blood donations and large volumes are safe as recommended by the World Health Organisation. The country each year needs around 1.9 million units of blood, while the collected amount currently meets 75 percent of the country’s demand. The health sector expected to collect 1.4 million units in 2019.

“During the Tet holiday, the country needed about 300,000 units of blood. We hope that the amount of collected blood will increase during the Red Sunday festival”.

The National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion said that many localities across the country are facing blood shortages for treatment, especially blood types O and A. The situation would be more serious during and after the Tet holiday.

Bac Giang receives more than 1,600 blood units

(BGO) – Responding to the programme of Red Journey 2019, the Steering Board for voluntary blood donation in the northern province of Bac Giang on July 15-16 coordinated with Fuhong Precision Component Company Limited  in Dinh Tram Industrial Park to hold the voluntary blood donation festival.

426 blood units donated at “Red drop of love” Blood Donation Day

(BGO) - The provincial Steering Board for voluntary blood donation mobilization organized the “Red Journey 2019” and the Blood Donation Day themed “Red drop of love” on 6 July in Bac Giang city.

Yen Dung honors 57 outstanding collective and individual blood donors

(BGO) – The Steering Board for Voluntary Blood Donation in Yen Dung district, Bac Giang province on August 7 held a ceremony honoring the outstanding collective and individual bloods donors in 2019.

Vietnam Buddhist Academy to host blood donation festival

The Vietnam Red Cross Society and the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) will work together to organise a blood donation and organ donation registration festival at the Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Soc Son district of Hanoi on August 4.

“Red Journey” blood donation campaign launched

Red Journey blood donation campaign 2019 is organised in five provinces and cities, including Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen, Quang Binh, Tuyen Quang and Ho Chi Minh City, aiming to attract the attention to of the public to the humanitarian movement.

Source: VNA