Cultural and Social Affairs Cluster (Provincial Agencies' Bloc) organizes Warm Winter - Volunteer Spring in Quy Chau

Presenting gifts (each worth 500,000 VND) to disadvantaged people in Chau Phong commune, Quy Chau district in the Warm Winter - Volunteer Spring program organized by the Cultural - Internal Affairs Cluster (Provincial Agencies Bloc Youth Union). Photo: PV

On January 8, at Chau Phong Commune Health Station, Quy Chau District, 8 units of the Cultural - Internal Affairs Emulation Cluster, the Youth Union of Provincial Agencies in coordination with Vinh City General Hospital, Quy Chau District Medical Center and accompanying units: Vietnam Food Joint Stock Company, TV. Pharm Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company and the North Central South Volunteer Club organized the Warm Winter - Volunteer Spring program in 2023. Attending the program were comrade Nguyen Cong Minh - Member of the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee, Secretary of the Youth Union of Provincial Agencies.

Units coordinate to guide, examine, diagnose, prescribe and provide medicine for people in Chau Phong commune. Photo: PV

Responding to the launch of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Youth Union on organizing Warm Winter - Spring volunteer activities towards difficult areas, the Cultural - Internal Affairs Group conducted a survey and selected a location to organize the program in Chau Phong commune - one of the remote communes with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions in Quy Chau district. Located about 25km from the district center, the economy is mainly agricultural production, people's lives are still difficult, this is the living area of ​​more than 6,900 people, mainly Thai and Kinh people, distributed in 9 villages, the poverty rate is over 53%.

Units of the Cultural and Social Emulation Cluster visited and presented gifts to students of Chau Phong Kindergarten, Ban Tam school. Photo: PV

Within the framework of the program, the medical staff of Vinh City General Hospital coordinated with doctors and nurses of Quy Chau District Medical Center and Chau Phong Commune Medical Station to provide free medical examination and medicine to about 300 people.

Doctor CK.II Nguyen Thanh Hai - Chairman of the Trade Union, Head of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Vinh City General Hospital said that the activities of examination, diagnosis and provision of medicine for people are one of the activities that the hospital regularly organizes and coordinates, aiming to provide better health care for people, especially in mountainous areas, remote areas, and special areas.

On this occasion, Vinh City General Hospital sent 16 medical staff including doctors from internal medicine, surgery, ophthalmology, ENT, diagnostic imaging, etc., bringing modern machines such as ultrasound, ENT endoscopy, electrocardiogram, etc. to serve the examination and treatment of Chau Phong people.

Units participating in the program took souvenir photos with officials and people of Chau Phong commune. Photo: PV

On the same morning, the units also presented 20 gifts to the elderly in difficult circumstances in Chau Phong commune, and visited and presented 2 water purifiers and gifts such as fruit jelly, fresh milk, etc. at Chau Phong 2 Primary School and Chau Phong Kindergarten, Ban Tam school. These meaningful gifts are to encourage teachers and students at the schools to continue to make more efforts in teaching and learning, striving to improve the achievements and quality of education in the mountainous district of Quy Chau.

Medicines and gifts in kind in the program, supported by accompanying units, have a total value of about 100 million VND./.