The health sector has called on medical staff and the community to donate blood at the Lễ hội Xuân hồng (Red Spring) blood donation festival at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health in Hà Nội on Thursday.

Trần Thị Giáng Hương, Director of the Department of International Co-operation under the Ministry of Health was appointed the Director of the World Health Organisation’s Division of Programmes for Disease Control last year. She talks to Vietnamplus online newspaper about her new role at an international body.