Hoa Binh, home to over 226,000 children with more than 53,000 Kinh ethnics and 173,000 of other minority groups, has taken child healthcare as an important mission.


 

Children in Da Bac district’s Cao Son commune in a football match held by the commune’s youth union.

The provincial medical sector has realised various solutions to ensure children’s access to healthcare services while improving nutrition for them, especially those residing in remote and ethnic-inhabited regions.

According to statistics from the provincial Department of Health, in the first half of the year, the rate of underweight children under five years old was 14.2% and that of stunting kids was 22.7% as compared to the 26% and the nearly 32% recorded in early 2010.

Medical staff specialising in child health care have been arranged at 151 medical stations in communes and towns. Meanwhile, under a programme against malnutrition among the children carried out across the province, close tabs have been kept on local kids’ growth, micronutrient and vitamin supplements, and vaccination.

Along with school-based health care, the sector has stepped up communications work to raise public awareness of the current healthcare policies and programmes.

In the ongoing summer holiday, local youth unions at all levels have been organising various activities to improve the health and spiritual lives of local kids, especially impoverished and ethnic minority ones.

 


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