Vietnamese, Lao military doctors provide medical checkup for border residents

Vietnamese, Lao military doctors provide medical checkups for border residents. (Photo: huonghoa.quangtri.gov.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – More than 100 Vietnameseand Lao military doctors provided health checkup for over 2,000 borderresidents of the two countries from December 5-8.

Nearly 5,000 residents in Seponh district,Savannakhet province of Laos, and Huong Hoa district, Vietnam’s Quang Triprovince, received medicines free of charge, while some 2,500 tested for COVID-19under the programme. All of them underwent screening tests for the coronavirus. 
      
On this occasion, the delegation of the VietnamPeople’s Army also presented gifts to 20 families of social policies, and medicalsupplies and drugs to authorities and people in Seponh.

The programme is expected to consolidate and enhancethe special solidarity and close ties between Vietnamese and Lao States,people, armies and military medical sectors.

It was held ahead of the first-ever Vietnam-Laos BorderDefence Friendship Exchange and related activities, salted for this month./.

VNA