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| Students donate blood at the 16th Chủ nhật đỏ blood donation campaign in Hà Nội. — VNS Photo Thanh Hải |
HÀ NỘI — The 17th Chủ nhật đỏ (Red Sunday) annual blood donation campaign will take place at the Hà Nội University of Science and Technology in Hà Nội on December 29.
The event is organised by Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper, the National Steering Committee on Traffic Safety, and the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusions (NIHBT) in more than 50 provinces and cities nationwide.
The Red Sunday programme is one of Việt Nam’s three major blood donation events of the year, along with the Red Spring and Red Journey festivals.
The campaign aims to ensure enough blood and safe blood for patients when there is a risk of blood shortages such as before, during and after Tết (Lunar New Year) period.
Director of the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) Nguyễn Hà Thanh said that the demand for blood always increases during Tết holiday.
“In the two months before, during and after the upcoming Lunar New Year, the NIHBT and hospitals in the northern region need about 80,000 units of blood for emergency and treatment of patients,” said Professor Thanh.
With the message 'Donate blood to save lives - your life and mine', in 16 years the Red Sunday programme has received more than 400 thousand units of blood in more than 50 provinces and cities across the country.
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| Journalist Phùng Công Sưởng, Editor-in-Chief of Tiền Phong Newspaper and head of the Organising Committee for Red Sunday 2025. — Photo courtesy of the organiser |
According to Journalist Phùng Công Sưởng, Editor-in-Chief of Tiền Phong Newspaper and head of the Organising Committee for Red Sunday 2025, Red Sunday has greatly contributed to changing people's awareness, especially young people towards donating blood to save lives.
“Changing awareness leads to changing behaviour and actions, and until now everyone realises that donating blood is worth doing and very meaningful, becoming a normal thing to do,” said Sưởng.
First organised in 2009 and only collecting 96 units of blood in Hà Nội, the programme has spread to 55 provinces and cities nationwide and collected an average of 55,000 blood units each year. — VNS
