Nearly 7,800 blood units donated during Pink Spring Festival

03:03, 29/03/2016

(ĐN)- The 2016 Pink Spring Festival in Dong Nai attracted the participation of tens of thousands of local young people and collected some 7,800 blood units, fulfilling 129 percent of the set target, according to the provincial Red Cross Association.

(ĐN)- The 2016 Pink Spring Festival in Dong Nai attracted the participation of tens of thousands of local young people and collected some 7,800 blood units, fulfilling 129 percent of the set target, according to the provincial Red Cross Association.

The annual event aims to encourage the community, particularly youngsters, to join blood drives to help ease the severe blood shortage in the aftermath of the Lunar New Year holiday.

Recently, Lac Hong University’s teachers and students donated 330 blood units. Dong Nai targets to collect 30,000 blood units in 2016.

Reported by H.D