About 500 Cambodian people and those of the Vietnamese origin in Borebo district, Cambodia's Kampong Chhnang province, received free health check-ups and medicine on March 18.
A delegation of Ho Chi Minh City's Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs on June 4 provided free health check-ups and medicines for impoverished overseas Vietnamese and Lao people in Vientiane.
The prolonged flooding in Vietnam’s central region has had a serious impact on the health of local residents. The 199 Police Hospital, in coordination with the Da Nang Trade Union, recently organised free health check-ups and provided medicine for local people in need, in a bid to ease their pain and suffering.
The Red Cross Society of Nghe An and Coca-Cola Company on December 8 inaugurated the Ekocenter, a centre for community activities, in the central province’s Cua Lo town, the 12th of its kind in Vietnam.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang mobilized nearly 34.5 billion VND (1.48 million USD) for the poor last year, 300 percent of its yearly target.
Vietnamese enterprises operating in Cambodia have presented gift packages through the Association of Khmer-Vietnam in Cambodia to 100 poor households, including overseas Vietnamese and Cambodian families.
More than 24 billion VND (1.05 million USD) was raised to help the poor celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival during a programme held in the northern province of Ha Nam on January 21.
A team of Vietnamese and Cambodian volunteer doctors provided free health check-ups and medicines to poor people in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on September 27-28.
More than 1 million volunteer youngsters joined the three-month 2017 Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign, according to the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s Central Committee.
Nearly 470,000 people were provided with free health check-ups and medicine worth about 120 billion VND (5.3 million USD) in the first six months of 2017.
More than 50 poor people in the northern province of Dien Bien’s border commune of Thanh Yen received free health check-ups, treatment and oriental medicine via a programme on July 30.
A ceremony was held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho city on June 20 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam-Cambodia diplomatic ties (June 24, 1967).
The Red Cross Society of Ha Tinh central province provided free health examination and medicines for low-income fishermen and social welfare beneficiaries in Ky Anh district on July 31.
Vietnam’s Military Hospital 175 is providing free health check-ups and medicines for impoverished Lao people as part of the ongoing 2015 Vietnam-Laos trade fair in the Lao province of Champasak.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) along with the Korea Workers’ Compensation & Welfare Service (KCOMWEL) and Hong Ngoc General Hospital provided free health check-ups and medicines for 200 poor patients.
More than 1,000 Vietnamese households and 200 poor Cambodian families in Phsar Chhnang ward, Cambodia’s Kampong Chhnang city, received gifts and free health check-ups on December 4.
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