(HBO) – like many other families in Na Meo commune of Mai Chau district, Vi Van Song and his family have departed for the communal clinic right at dawn as doctors from the Military High Command of Hoa Binh province come to give free check-ups, advice and medicine to local residents.


Doctors and nurses of the provincial Military High Command wholeheartedly give examinations to residents of Na Meo commune, Mai Chau district.

Col. Vu Hai Ninh, Deputy Chief Commander of the Military High Command, said the activity was part of a series of action programmes assigning agencies to support specially disadvantaged communes in the province. It also aimed to express gratitude to revolution contributors and assist ethnic minority and low-income families, thus helping to enhance the civil-military solidarity and the great national unity bloc while promoting public health care and improving people’s living standards.

Through providing check-ups for people in Na Meo and nearby communes like Cun Pheo, Pieng Ve and Xam Khoe, the medical workers identified the diseases most locals suffer from after flooding and advised them about how to prevent diseases in the rainy season, especially the common diseases in disadvantaged areas with poor environmental sanitation.

In the medical activity in Na Meo, 320 people received free examination, advice and medicine. The provided medicine was worth 19 million VND in total.

The Military High Command also worked with the Tam Duc general clinic in Muong Khen township, Tan Lac district, to present 51 health care vouchers worth 1.2 million VND each to disadvantaged families in Na Meo commune./.

 

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