Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 18 called on Vietnamese people, firms and agencies both at home and overseas to continue providing relief for disadvantaged people living in far-flung islands and areas as well as those affected by natural disasters and Agent Orange/dioxin.
The Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin of central Da Nang city aims to raise up to 10 billion VND (430,666 USD) in aid for local people affected by AO/Dioxin this year.
More models on education, vocational training, employment and resettlement support, and community integration will be carried out in areas contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO) as part of efforts to create sustainable livelihoods for Vietnamese victims of bombs and mines.
Officers, doctors and nurses of the Vietnamese and Lao people’s armies on December 23 began a free health checkup programme for people in Muong Khoa district of Laos’ Phongsaly province.
The Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence and its Cambodian counterpart will hold their first joint land border search and rescue exercise in Tuasday commune, Chanthrea district, Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province on December 18.
More than 5,000 volunteers of the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VNRC) as well as local residents participated in a fundraising walk for Agent Organge (AO)/Dioxin victims and impoverished people with disabilities in Ho Chi Minh City on August 10.
As many as 56 children with genetic facial defects are receiving medical checkups and surgical operations during a programme held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue from July 15 to 20.
Healthcare services that are popular for foreigners living in Vietnam and overseas Vietnamese, including orthodontic treatment, cardiovascular intervention, cosmetics surgery and some other surgeries.
Child cancer patients from disadvantaged backgrounds need more treatment assistance, said National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan while visiting the Vietnam National Children’s Hospital in Hanoi on January 22.
The implementation of the second phase of a health care project in the Central Highlands provinces was reviewed at a conference held in Da Lat city on January 11.
Ho Chi Minh City has begun allocating funds to 24 health stations for upgrading their infrastructure, as part of efforts to strengthen primary health care in the model of family medicine.
Ten Asian small-clawed otters (Aonex cinerea) have been rescued from illegal traders by the Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) in the northern province of Nam Dinh.
Governor of Champasak province Bounthong Divixay on November 13 presented the Order of Independence of the Lao State to leaders of Vietnam’s southern Dong Nai province for their contributions to Vietnam – Laos relations.
The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum and three provinces of Laos and Cambodian do not only share boundaries with each other along edges of the Annamese Mountains but also boast growing bonds in recent years.
A delegation of surgeons from the US-backed Face to Face programme is providing medical checkups and surgery for patients at the National Otorhinolaryngology Hospital of Vietnam (NOH).
A group of 18 doctors from Chung-Ang University, the Republic of Korea, are providing free health checkups and medicines to people in the central province of Quang Ngai from October 15 – 19.
The southern province of Binh Duong and two Cambodian provinces of Kandal and Kratie have agreed to enhance cooperation and twining activities for 2018-19 period.
The Pacific Angel (PAC ANGEL), a joint regional humanitarian assistance and disaster relief engagement funded by the US Indo-Pacific Command, has returned to the central province of Quang Nam.
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