Male student volunteered to donate blood 10 times to save lives

(Baonghean) - With 10 blood donations to save lives - Nguyen Viet Tuan, a general medicine student at Vinh Medical University, is holding the provincial record.

Nguyen Viet Tuan was born in 1992 in Van Dien commune, Nam Dan district. Tuan said that since entering university, he always told himself that in addition to trying to study, he would actively participate in volunteer programs. As a medical student, having been in contact with many life and death cases, Tuan understands more clearly the role of blood donation, so this is a volunteer activity that Tuan focuses on.

Nguyen Viet Tuan donated blood in the program "Youth Day VMU 2016"

Since 2011, Tuan has been a pioneer in donating blood 10 times, not to mention donating platelets many times. Always keeping in mind the belief that “A drop of blood given – A life saved”, whenever he hears a phone call requiring urgent blood transfusion, Tuan does not hesitate to be there to donate blood to help patients regardless of late night or rain or wind.

Seeing the patient overcome the critical stage, seeing the grateful and affectionate eyes of the patient's family is a gift, a motivation that helps Tuan to be more enthusiastic in volunteer activities. With his contributions, last June, Tuan was honored to be named in the Ceremony to honor 100 typical voluntary blood donors in Vietnam.

Not only does Tuan donate blood to save people, he also serves as the Head of the school's Voluntary Blood Donation Club, developing many plans and organizing many humanitarian blood donation programs to help patients.

In just the first 6 months of 2016, the Club under Tuan's leadership has organized 5 concentrated and unscheduled blood donation programs as well as many emergency blood donation campaigns, collecting a total of 950 units of blood. At the same time, Tuan and the Club have also organized many campaigns to widely disseminate to the community, raising awareness of proper blood donation to the people, especially young people and union members...

Nguyen Viet Tuan (front row, middle) at the Ceremony to honor 100 outstanding Vietnamese voluntary blood donors in 2016.

Not only actively participating in voluntary blood donation, Tuan also advises the Youth Union and Student Association of Vinh Medical University on movements, and actively participates in a series of meaningful volunteer activities for the community such as "For community life", "Supporting exam season", "Spring warm human love"...

Actively participating in volunteer activities, Tuan also excelled in his studies, "training medical ethics and practicing medical skills". Throughout the semesters, with his tireless efforts, Tuan always achieved good and excellent results. Also because of the above contributions, Tuan was repeatedly awarded Certificates of Merit by the school, other agencies and the Provincial Youth Union in recognition and honor.

Chu Thanh