The event aimed to encourage local people to donateblood to save lives and enhance their sense of responsibility to the community.
It also offered opportunities for bloodreceiving agencies to practise necessary skills and measures to tackleaccidents requiring blood transfusion.
Following the successful festival, theprovincial steering committee for blood donation will continue implementing thecampaign in districts and communes to call for the further participation ofindividuals and organisations.
In the past five years, Phu Tho province hasheld over 190 blood donation events with the participation of more than 75,000volunteers, collecting about 48,000 blood units. It has also seen an increasingnumber of blood donators year after year.- VNA