Charity health campaign to benefit 1 million people
The campaign is conducted until
February 15 next year by the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) in coordination
with the Health Ministry, the General Political Department of the
People’s Army and the Association of Young Doctors.
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Nguyen
Thien Nhan hailed the campaign as the start of a new nationwide drive
for the same goal in later years. He suggested the campaign’s four
stakeholders to develop other similar activities to provide health
insurance and safe water, improve environmental hygiene and carry out
expanded vaccination and nutrition programmes for the poor and children
in disadvantaged regions such as the mountainous and border areas and
islands.
Besides medical checks and
treatment, the charity campaign also includes educational activities to
equip local residents in target communities with knowledge about disease
and injury prevention and how to respond to emergency situations and
natural disasters.
In addition, the
organising committee will present gifts such as houses, cows and health
insurance cards to those most in need.
Following the launch ceremony, eight teams set out for their missions
in poor districts in eight northern cities and provinces.
The same day, similar activities began in response to the campaign in 17 other cities and provinces.
The charity health care campaign is one of the main activities
stipulated in the cooperation programme signed in July this year among
the VRC, the Health Ministry, the General Political Department of the
People’s Army and the Association of Young Doctors.-VNA