A performance at the gala (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – The “Trai timcho em” (Operation Healthy Heart) programme has provided free surgery fornearly 5,200 children suffering from congenital heart defects, heard a galaheld in Ho Chi Minh City on December 15.
The event was jointly organised by theVietnam Television (VTV)’s “Tam long Viet” (Vietnam’s Heart) foundation and theViettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel).
Speaking at the gala, Politburo member andSecretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan spokehighly of the charity programme.
It has also contributed to child protectionand education in Vietnam as well as the country’s hunger eradication and povertyalleviation efforts, he added.
“Trai tim cho em” has raised 152 billionVND (6.5 million USD) over the past 11 years. In addition, over 130,000children nationwide have received free heart disease screening.
In 2019 alone, the programme provided freesurgery for more than 550 child patients while around 30,000 children receivedfree screenings, doubling 2018’s figure.
On the occasion, the programme’s newambassadors - footballers Nguyen Trong Hoang, Que Ngoc Hai and Bui Tien Dung -presented a jersey with signatories of all members of the U22 team and Koreanhead coach Park Hang-seo, which will be auctioned to raise funds for futureoperations for children born with heart defects./.
The event was jointly organised by theVietnam Television (VTV)’s “Tam long Viet” (Vietnam’s Heart) foundation and theViettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel).
Speaking at the gala, Politburo member andSecretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan spokehighly of the charity programme.
It has also contributed to child protectionand education in Vietnam as well as the country’s hunger eradication and povertyalleviation efforts, he added.
“Trai tim cho em” has raised 152 billionVND (6.5 million USD) over the past 11 years. In addition, over 130,000children nationwide have received free heart disease screening.
In 2019 alone, the programme provided freesurgery for more than 550 child patients while around 30,000 children receivedfree screenings, doubling 2018’s figure.
On the occasion, the programme’s newambassadors - footballers Nguyen Trong Hoang, Que Ngoc Hai and Bui Tien Dung -presented a jersey with signatories of all members of the U22 team and Koreanhead coach Park Hang-seo, which will be auctioned to raise funds for futureoperations for children born with heart defects./.
VNA
