"Healthy hearts donate blood to save lives" - Message from Nghe An General Hospital
With the theme “Healthy hearts donate blood to save lives”, the Provincial General Hospital of Friendship organized a ceremony to launch voluntary blood donation in response to the campaign “Red Blood Drops Summer 2012”. This blood donation took place over two days, August 15-16, and this morning (August 15), more than 600 officers, doctors, nurses and staff of the hospital directly participated.
(Baonghean.vn) -With the theme “Healthy hearts donate blood to save lives”, the Provincial General Hospital of Friendship organized a ceremony to launch voluntary blood donation in response to the campaign “Red Blood Drops Summer 2012”. This blood donation took place over two days, August 15-16, and this morning (August 15), more than 600 officers, doctors, nurses and staff of the hospital directly participated.
Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong praised the spirit of blood donation to save lives of doctors and nurses.
Specialist II Doctor Nguyen Hoai Nam - Head of the Orthopedic Trauma Department excitedly said: This is the 4th time he has participated in donating blood organized by the hospital. The patients coming to the Orthopedic Trauma Department for treatment all have multiple injuries, so the amount of blood lost is very large; each transfusion is not simply 250ml or 500ml, but sometimes we transfuse 10 - 15 units of blood. Also according to Doctor Nam: In the past, many students, soldiers, and officers of local agencies responded to donate blood, thereby saving many patients. During the summer and Tet, the amount of blood is often very short, patients are in great danger, so during this time the hospital organizes for officers and employees to donate blood.
Directly participating in the blood donation, Doctor Nguyen Danh Linh - Director of the Hospital said: This blood donation campaign with the theme "Healthy hearts donate blood to save people", the red blood drops of doctors and nurses will directly treat patients, help with heart surgery, heart intervention for 9 children being treated... This blood donation campaign also carries the message: doctors have been and are taking their own blood to help patients, thereby calling on the community to join hands with the hospital and the medical sector.
Many staff, doctors and nurses registered to donate blood.
Doctor Nguyen Hoang Cat - Deputy Director of Nghe An Province Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center said: The voluntary blood donation movement in our province is increasingly widespread, but it only meets 60% of the demand. There have been many cases where patients have to wait for blood or have to receive insufficient blood... The difficulty in receiving blood for the Center is that there are times when many blood donation campaigns are organized, the blood collected is in large quantities but the blood stored for a long time does not ensure the quality. Every month our province needs about 800 units of blood, equivalent to 4-6 donation campaigns. In the past 3 months, blood donation campaigns have been very limited, so the blood donation campaign of the doctors and nurses of the General Hospital of Friendship is very timely and urgent.
Participating in this blood donation, Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee warmly praised the blood donation spirit of the hospital's doctors and nurses - those who not only directly treat patients but also have been devoting their lives to the patients. Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong clearly stated: the "small actions" of each cadre, doctor and nurse for patients such as donating blood to save lives have become vivid acts to make the sacred Hippocratic oath more real.
Thanh Chung
