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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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A technical assistance project of the safe blood transfusion programme
in Vietnam has gained satisfactory results after being implemented at
health services and hospitals nationwide under the sponsorship of
Luxembourg in the 2004-2010 period, said a health ministry official.
Deputy Head of the Health Ministry’s National
Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) Bach Quoc Khanh
said the project has provided technical and professional consultation
and financial assistance to his institute in building technical
standards and professional guidance for blood banks and blood
transfusion services.
According to Khanh, under
the project, a number of training courses on blood quality management
were held for cadres at the blood transfusion centres and a programme on
screening blood transfusion transmitted diseases was successfully
carried out at more than 20 test labs nationwide.
The project has also mobilised and maintained the number of volunteer
blood donors. In 2009, there were more than 500,000 volunteer blood
donors and more than 132,000 professional blood donors and patients’
relatives.
Vietnam ’s blood transfusion
sector will finalise its blood transfusion system in the 2011-2020
period. It will increase the capability for four new blood transfusion
centres at the NIHBT, the Hue Central Hospital , the Cho Ray
Hospital in HCM City and the Can Tho City Health Department and
establish similar centres in the northern province of Dien Bien, the
central province of Binh Dinh and the Mekong Delta province of
Kien Giang .
The sector will also assist the
establishment of the blood transfusion system for the military and
public security sector and organise blood transfusion services in
remote, mountainous and island regions./.(Source: Vietnamplus)
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