More medical equipment handed over to HCM City
HCM City (VNA) – The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee
of Ho Chi Minh City received medical supplies and equipment worth over 37
billion VND (1.6 million USD) from businesses and organisations and abroad on
September 27, for the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
The supplies include 200,000 FFP2 masks valued at more than 2.3 billion VND
from the Catholic
Bishops' Conference of Vietnam, which are to be provided for 21 units
and COVID-19 treatment hospitals in the city. Others are ventilators, ambulances,
medical beds, electric
syringe pumps, and more.
The
same day, the committee also received 10 out of 20 tonnes of rice donated by
the Navy High Command based in the northern port city of Hai Phong.
Since January, the
committee has received more than 957 billion VND, over 310 billion VND of which
were for vaccine purchases and over 360 billion VND for necessities.
From July 1 to
September 27, it connected with and called on over 187 individuals,
organisations and businesses at home and abroad to support medicines and
medical equipment worth more than 2.2 trillion VND./.