PM okays UNICEF-funded comprehensive childcare project
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a UNICEF-funded project on childcare development and renovating the healthcare system in Vietnam.
The project hopes to strengthen the medical
system’s capacity of maternal and child care aiming to expand coverage and
improving the quality of integrated early childhood development, including
healthcare services, nutrition and hygiene, especially among vulnerable
children.
It will run from 2017-2021 in Hanoi and the
provinces of Gia Lai, Kon Tum and Dien Bien, costing more than 5.1 million USD
in non-refundable aid, with more than 16 billion VND (761,000 USD) and items
worth in excess of 8 billion VND sourced from the Vietnamese government.
The PM asked the Health
Ministry to review and carry out the project.-VNA