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Free medical checkups, medicines offered to 6 million poor people

More than 6 million poor people were provided with free health checkups and medicines thanks to a humanitarian programme on treatment and public health services in the 2014-2017 period.
Free medical checkups, medicines offered to 6 million poor people ảnh 1Outstanding organisations and individuals honoured at the conference (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – More than 6 million poor people were provided with freehealth checkups and medicines thanks to a humanitarian programme on treatment andpublic health services in the 2014-2017 period.

Theprogramme was designed to call for entire society’s engagement in humanitarianmedical checkups and treatment, thus helping to improve the services for theneedy, with priority given to poor, remote, border and island areas.

Jointlyorganised by the Vietnam Red Cross Society, the Ministry of Health, the VietnamPeople’s Army’s General Department of Politics and the Association of Vietnam’sYoung Doctors, the programme targets to give free health checkups and medicinesto at least 1 million people each year.

Afterfour years of implementation, the programme offered medical checkups andmedicines to over 6 million people across the country with a total cost of morethan 1,318 billion VND, including 525 billion VND worth of medicines.

Theprogramme saw the participation of more than 257,300 doctors and health workers,while receiving support from many organisations, enterprises and individuals.

VicePresident of the Vietnam Red Cross Society Tran Thi Hong An said that theprogramme has contributed to implementing social security policies of the Partyand State, while sharing the burden with the Ministry of Health.

Meanwhile,Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien said that it has brought high-qualityhealthcare services to locals in extremely disadvantaged areas, whileencouraging young doctors to reach remote areas to ease difficulties for thepoor.

Hesuggested that in the coming time, the programme should take advantage of localhealth workers to reduce costs.-VNA
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