Members of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in the central province of Quang Tri is carrying a volunteer campaign in Outhoumphone and Xaybuly districts of Savannakhet province of Laos from June 12^th–16^th.

At the event (Source: Internet)

Volunteers from the Quang Tri young doctor club have offered free medical checkups and medicine for more than 4,000 people in Savannakhet and educate them on how to prevent tropical diseases.

In addition, they have coordinated with Outhoumphone district’s hospital to provide free surgery for a local impoverished patient who has suffered a chest wall tumor for years. They have also transferred several advanced medical techniques for disadvantaged hospitals at district level.

The volunteers donated one tonne of rice, 2,000 pair of shoes, 2,000 red scarves and 500 mosquito nets to local people and students and presented gifts to local poor families.

Cultural and sport events have been held between the young volunteers and local youths.

Last year, Quang Tri’s Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union also teamed up with the Vietnam Red Cross Society and the provincial young doctor club to organize charity events in Nong district, Savannakhet province. The volunteers provided health checkups and medicines to about 1,300 people in 19 villages of Nong district.

The volunteer campaign in Savannakhet is an annual event of young people of Quang Tri, said Deputy Secretary of Quang Tri’s Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Committee Tran Xuan Anh.

The youth union expects the campaign will help disadvantaged people in Savannakhet overcome difficulties and strengthen solidarity and friendship between youths of the two provinces and the two countries as well./.

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