The Vietnam Red Cross Society, alternatively the Viet Nam Red Cross Society or the Vietnamese Red Cross Society, is the Vietnamese national affiliation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and domestically a member of the Vietnam Fatherland Front. The organisation was established during the First Indochina War, and originally had two branches. The Northern branch was established in Hanoi in 1946, and the Southern branch was established by Dr Ho Van Nhut in Saigon in 1951.