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Dong Nai’s doctors in Laos to provide free check-ups

Dozens of doctors and physicians from the southern province of Dong Nai left for Champasak province in Laos on January 5 to provide medical check-ups for about 5,000 poor people.
Dozens of doctors and physicians from the southern province of Dong Naileft for Champasak province in Laos on January 5 to provide medicalcheck-ups for about 5,000 poor people.

As part oftheir activities in Champasak, the Vietnamese medical group will alsohold a symposium to support the province’s heath sector in preventivehealth, food hygiene and safety, and personnel training.

According to Huynh Minh Hoan, director of Dong Nai provincial HealthDepartment, the assistance not only helps the Lao province in traininghuman resources, transferring new technology, but contributing toconsolidating the friendship between the two provinces and the twocountries as well.

This is the third time Dong Nai province sent doctors to Champasak for free medical check-ups.

In the coming time, the province will receive doctors from Laos for training in its hospitals.-VNA
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