6,000 young doctors to join in public health care

At the launching ceremony of the 2016 festival of young doctors. (Source: suckhoedoisong.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – Some 6,000 will
join hands to provide and medicines for people
in 63 cities and provinces from May 12-19.

These activities are included in the annual festival
of young doctors held by the and the Association of
Vietnam’s Young Doctors, heard a press conference in Hanoi on May 7.

Besides, the doctors will conduct free eye
operations for the elderly and surgeries for children with congenital
abnormalities, provide first-aid training for teachers and present gifts to
needy people and water filters to pre-schools in disadvantaged areas.

The organisation board is expected to collect 13,000
units of blood during the festival.

A national ceremony is scheduled to be held at the
Quang Trung Museum in Tay Son district, the central province of Binh Dinh on
May 19.

The festival, the tenth of its kind, is hoped to
benefit nearly 200,000 people across the country. -VNA