HÀ NỘI — Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính met with 100 outstanding voluntary blood donors nationwide on Saturday, who are in Hà Nội for a special programme honouring their good deeds. The Party and State always created favourable conditions for blood donation, he said, citing Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng’s blood donation appeal in April 2020 when COVID-19 was developing. Since the establishment of the National Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation in 2008, more than 16 million blood units have been collected, 99 per cent of which have come from voluntary donors. All cities, provinces and districts have set up their own steering committees for voluntary blood donation. Up to 1,500 blood donors have been commended over the past years.
