09:10, 15/10/2016

Community health care promoted

Over the past years, Nha Trang City Red Cross has developed primary health care for locals throughout the city...

Over the past years, Nha Trang City Red Cross has developed primary health care for locals throughout the city.

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Free medical examination for locals in Phuoc Long Ward.


Nha Trang City Red Cross has established 54 first aid and humanitarian health care locations in most of communes and wards in Nha Trang City. Particularly, there are 14 first aid locations in Vinh Hoa Ward, according to Le Quoc Thinh, Chairman of Nha Trang City Red Cross.
 

Notably, over the past 5 years (2011-2016), readily accessible primary health care has been assured in Vinh Phuoc and Tan Lap clinics; and first aid locations in Phuoc Tan Ward, Vinh Hoa Ward, Phuoc Long Ward and Vinh Hai Ward, providing free medication worth VND4.1 billion for more than 20,600 disadvantaged people. First aid taxi motorcyclists have taken 2,210 patients to hospitals.

The Red Cross affiliations of Van Thanh, Van Thang, Vinh Hai, Vinh Nguyen, Phuong Sai, Vinh Hai have provided free check-up and medication for more than 15,000 poor, disabled and old people; and timely first aid for more than 300 accident victims. Thousands of patients have been treated by acupuncture and massage therapies. In addition, Red Cross societies have taken hundreds of medical trips worth tens of billions of dongs.


Annually, some Red Cross societies in Loc Tho, Vinh Thanh and Vinh Trung provide medical check-up and medication free of chare twice or three times a year for the aged. “Vinh Trung Commune Red Cross gives free medical check-up and medication twice a year. I can get more information about my disease and thus know how to take good care of my health,” says 70-year-old Nguyen Huu Phung, Vinh Trung Commune.


Nha Trang City Red Cross has taken charity trips to remote areas and islands. Since the beginning of the year, 3 medical trips have been taken, providing free check-up and medications for nearly 1,000 poor people and ethnic minority communities in the communes of Giang Ly (Khanh Vinh District), Ba Cum Bac (Khanh Son District) and Suoi Cat (Cam Lam District), etc.
 

Besides, Nha Tang Red Cross at all levels have implemented blood donation campaigns successfully. Over the past 5 years, 40 blood donation drives have been held, mobilizing 8,576 participants and collecting more than 6,000 units of blood.


Moreover, the Red cross in association with local communities has opened first aid classes, joined in environmental protection, epidemic control effort; propaganda for family planning and open vaccination for kids, etc.
 

B.N
Translated by N.T