Red Spring Festival 2017 opens in Hanoi
The 10th Xuan Hong (Red Spring) Festival kicked off at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi on February 18. The event marked 10 years of the Red Spring Festival in Vietnam.
Permanent Deputy Secretary of Hanoi Party Committee Ngo Thi Thanh Hang attended the launching ceremony.
This year’s festival is expected to see 30,000 people and receive at least 8,000 units of blood for over 170 hospitals in the northern region.
Speaking at the event, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said he hoped provinces and cities nationwide continue to response and hold the festival.
He also called on people to participate in blood donation campaigns in the year to save lives.
According to Prof. Dr. Nguyen Anh Tri, Director of the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT), who is also head of the festival’s organising board, since the first festival was held in Hanoi in 2008, it received nearly 51,000 blood units from voluntary donors.
After the opening ceremony, the National Steering Committee for Blood Donation held a conference to review the annual festival in the last ten years.
The event also took place many activities honouring individuals and units with great contributions to the festival over the years.
The festival included several activities such as a music festival, an exhibition on 10 years of the festival and game shows, with the performance of many famous artists and singers.
In response to the call for post-Tet (Lunar New Year) blood donations, on February 17, more than 600 health workers from 20 Hanoi-based hospitals participated in a parade along streets in capital city to call for blood donations to save lives.
Earlier on February 12-13, about 1,000 volunteers from the Hanoi Association of Youth Blood Donor Recruiters took to the streets to encourage people to donate blood.
Permanent Deputy Secretary of Hanoi Party Committee Ngo Thi Thanh Hang joins the opening ceremony of the Red Spring Festival 2017.
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Speaking at the event, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said he hoped provinces and cities nationwide continue to response and hold the festival.
He also called on people to participate in blood donation campaigns in the year to save lives.
According to Prof. Dr. Nguyen Anh Tri, Director of the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT), who is also head of the festival’s organising board, since the first festival was held in Hanoi in 2008, it received nearly 51,000 blood units from voluntary donors.
After the opening ceremony, the National Steering Committee for Blood Donation held a conference to review the annual festival in the last ten years.
The event also took place many activities honouring individuals and units with great contributions to the festival over the years.
At the festival.
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In response to the call for post-Tet (Lunar New Year) blood donations, on February 17, more than 600 health workers from 20 Hanoi-based hospitals participated in a parade along streets in capital city to call for blood donations to save lives.
Earlier on February 12-13, about 1,000 volunteers from the Hanoi Association of Youth Blood Donor Recruiters took to the streets to encourage people to donate blood.
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