(VOVworld) - The 2016 Red Spring Festival in Thai Nguyen province was expected to collect nearly 300 units of blood from donors.

The festival, organised by the provincial blood donation steering committee, attracted the participation of about 500 youth members and students from local universities. It aimed to help reduce blood scarcity for medical treatment during the occasion of the Tet holiday in the locality. In the last five years, the province collected over 60,000 blood units, however, the amount of blood only satisfied about 65 percent of demand for treatment.