Nghe An Department of Health helps poor commune Yen Tinh

(Baonghean.vn) -According to the assignment of the Provincial People's Committee, in November 2012, Nghe An Department of Health planned to help the poor commune of Yen Tinh, Tuong Duong district in the period of 2012 - 2015, as well as deploy specific and practical support activities. Currently, the Department of Health is mobilizing cadres, public service units in the industry, central and local medical and pharmaceutical enterprises to join hands to contribute to the development of Yen Tinh commune.

Yen Tinh poor commune is 60 km west of Tuong Duong district center.Male. The commune has 9 villages with 910 households, of which 800 households are poor. People's lives mainly depend on farming, animal husbandry and forest resources; protecting and taking care of people's health and children's learning conditions face many difficulties...

Nghe An Department of Health signed a memorandum of understanding to help poor commune Yen Tinh

To help Yen Tinh commune practically and effectively, Nghe An Department of Health has established a working group to mobilize support for the poor and poor communes in the Western region, led by a deputy director of the Department and a number of leaders of provincial hospitals, centers, functional departments of the Department and local medical and pharmaceutical enterprises as members. Activities to help Yen Tinh commune have been and are being carried out in the following contents: Organizing communication and education on health, population and family planning; free health check-ups and medicine provision; Supplementing equipment for health stations, equipping medicine cabinets for 09 villages; Providing beds, building kitchens and dining rooms for boarding students; building gratitude houses; giving 05 computers to schools, health stations, commune People's Committees and guiding and piloting economic development models based on plans to develop medicinal plants and livestock. The total budget for the Department of Health to help Yen Tinh commune is expected to be 1.5 billion VND, including cash and in-kind. The activities are distributed evenly over 4 years, from 2012 to 2015, in which communication and education activities on population health - family planning, health check-ups and free medicine are organized annually.

On February 3-4, the Department of Health organized a working group to Yen Tinh commune to directly work and sign a memorandum of understanding on helping, visiting and giving gifts to poor households on the occasion of the Spring of Quy Ty 2013. Specifically, 10 gifts were given to 10 poor households, each gift worth 1 million VND, 5 sets of computers and 1 printer were given to the People's Committee, health station and 3 schools of Yen Tinh commune... Mr. Bui Dinh Long - Director of Nghe An Department of Health said: Currently, the Department of Health and the Trade Union of Nghe An Health Sector are calling for the generosity and sense of responsibility of cadres, public service units of the health sector in the province; central and local medical and pharmaceutical enterprises located in the province and domestic and foreign benefactors to join hands to help Yen Tinh commune.

Also according to Mr. Bui Dinh Long, in the immediate future, the Department of Health and the Trade Union of the industry call for support once a year, in 2013 - 2014: each union member supports at least one day's salary/year; affiliated public service units support in various forms depending on their capacity; provincial hospitals such as the Friendship General Hospital, the Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital, the Endocrinology and Oncology Hospital support at least 7 million VND/hospital/year, other provincial hospitals and regional general hospitals support at least 5 million VND/hospital/year; district hospitals in the plains and midlands support at least 3 million VND/hospital/year, district hospitals in the mountainous areas support at least 2 million VND/hospital/year; Pharmaceutical enterprises in the province and non-public medical examination and treatment facilities support funds, medicines, medical equipment, each unit supports at least 5 million VND/year; Other individuals and businesses support according to their ability.

Tu Thanh - Thanh Chung