(HBO) – The Hoa Binh provincial Department of Population and Family Planning has partnered with the steering committee for population and planning of Cao Phong district to hold a gathering of 40 local families whose children are all daughters with excellent academic performances.
Families whose children
are all daughters with excellent academic performances in Cao Phong receive
presents from the provincial Department of Population and Family Planning.
The event aims to increase the effectiveness of
population and family planning communication campaigns and change people’s
mindset on gender preference, thus improving population quality.
At the gathering, three all-daughter families
shared experience in talking to other relatives about how a family should only
have two children at
most, even if they are girls, in order to provide
the children with better care and education.
The population and family planning department also talked
to attendees about the consequences of sex imbalance at birth, child marriage
and consanguine marriage, as well as solutions to avoid getting pregnant with the third child.
The department later presented gifts to the participating
families./.
In the afternoon of December 17, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism organized a summary and awarding ceremony for the Online Competition on preventing and controlling the Family Violence in 2024.
Implementing the Resolution of the 17th Provincial Party Congress to reach a health insurance coverage rate of 95% or more of the population, the Women's Union at all provincial levels has deployed the creative models and methods and effectively replicated them. These activities not only contribute to completing the social security goals, but they also spread the spirit of solidarity and sharing in the community.
Hoa Binh is carried out investment projects to upgrade three district medical centres in Lac Son and Yen Thuy districts and Hoa Binh city. The projects are funded by the central budget under the Economic and Social Recovery and Development Programme, aiming to improve healthcare services. The goal is to gradually develop a system of modern and quality district-level healthcare facilities.
To improve the cultural and spiritual life of the elderly, the associations for the elderly at various levels in Hoa Binh province have created many interesting and meaningful activities, attracting the participation of a large number of old people. These activities provide opportunities for them to improve both their physical and mental health, enabling them to live happily and healthily.
The pilot programme for sending Vietnamese workers to the Republic of Korea (RoK) for seasonal agricultural jobs continues under a collaboration between localities of the two countries, running for five years from January 1, 2022.
Staff of the Red Cross Society of Hoa Binh province were deeply moved by a meaningful and humanitarian act by Mr Vu Huu Lung, 86, in Hoa Binh city, to donate his corneas, which brought hopes to those yearning for the light. Before passing away, Lung left behind a noble wish to donate all of his organs, including his corneas, to help patients suffering from blindness and those in need of organ transplants to revive their lives.
