Do Sy Nam, 42, residing in Da Nang’s Thanh Khe District is one of one hundred outstanding Vietnamese blood donors who were honoured at a ceremony in late August in Ha Noi.

Do Sy Nam was honoured as one of one hundred outstanding Vietnamese blood donors. (Photo courtesy of the character)

As a volunteer of the Da Nang Red Cross Society, Nam has donated blood to save lives 53 times. The timely rescue of pregnant women and children with blood cancer has become a source of motivation for him to continue to perform and spread this meaningful act to many others.

In 1998, Nam saw his grandson suffering from dengue fever and had to receive massive blood transfusions in one day. At that time, he wondered, what would happen to his grandson and other patients if there was no timely blood response.

From those concerns, Mr. Nam decided to regularly take part in voluntary blood donation programmes.

By 2007, when he got married, he started donating platelets and has been a member of the city's urgent blood club.

During the complicated period of COVID-19, he donated platelets to save life of a child patient at the Da Nang Pediatrics and Maternity Hospital. Not only directly donating blood to save lives of many people, he has been active in encouraging his relatives to participate in such meaningful programme.

Dang Thi Tuyet, Nam's wife, confided that, till date, she has donated blood more than 10 times.

Although he is busy making a living, every time someone needs him, Nam is ready to put aside work to save lives of people. Seeing this, many times Tuyet advised him to take a rest, but he said he was still healthy and continued working until late at night to finish his work.

Tuyet happily said “My children and I have always supported him. My children also look forward to join blood donations when they are old enough.”

In addition, Nam and his wife have actively got involved in mobilising relatives, friends and neighbours to donate blood to save lives.

Not only in Da Nang, whenever patients in Hue or Quang Nam Province are in need of urgent blood, if he can help, Mr. Nam is also ready to put aside work to help the patients.

Aside from blood donations, during storm and flood conditions, Nam and the volunteers of the municipal Red Cross Society are willing to help residents to reinforce their houses ahead of storms’ arrivals, and repair damaged items after the storm.

For him, more than a thank you, the fact that the patient can come back alive is the most precious gift he wants to receive. He hopes that he will always be healthy so that he can continue donating blood because happiness is derived from giving.

Reporting by THU DUYEN - Translating by M.DUNG