Hue’s poor people to get free health checkups, medicines

The medical teams gave free health care examinations and other primary medical services to the poor and sponsored many patients that needed procedures, hospitalizations, and specialized care including heart operations.

Free heath care examinations to children and families from the disabled enter in Hue.

After seven days of the first medical mission, all the VWAM’s doctors contributed efforts to do screening and medicines supply for nearly 1000 people from Thuong Quang and Huong Son communes (Nam Dong district) between April 3 and 10.

Patients was mostly Kinh but many ethnic minorities, some of whom are getting life-saving and life-altering medical care. The medical team routinely identifies “special patients” who will be sent quickly to receive surgeries and other more serious procedures.

The team also dispensed adult and/or children’s vitamins, and distributed any special equipment such as walkers, canes or wheelchairs to needy people.

The second medical mission will be deployed from April 18 in Khe Tre town, Thuong Lo commune and An Hoa ward.

Vets With A Mission is a NGO carrying-out humanitarian programs and project. It was founded in 1989 by Vietnam veterans.

It was the vision of Bill Kimball, a Vietnam Veteran who served with the first Cavalry as a Mortarman during the 1968 Tet Offensive, also known as the Mau Than General Offensive. After an exploratory trip to Vietnam in 1988, a group of veterans and non-veterans began under the guidance of Bill Kimball, to form a not-for-profit society that would begin humanitarian projects in Vietnam./.

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