A child patient receives examination at the programme (Photo: VNA)medical checkups and surgical operations during a programme held in the central
province of Thua Thien-Hue from July 15 to 20.
The programme is
arranged by a delegation of experts from the Republic of Korea’s (RoK) Chonbuk
National University, and (Hue
UMP). It provides free oral and maxillofacial surgeries for 30 children out of
the kids.
On this occasion,
doctors offer medical examinations for patients who received surgeries during
last year’s programme. Following the surgeries, the young patients receive
treatment at a centre for phonetic placement therapy at the hospital.
Dr Tran Tan Tai, vice
head of the Faculty of Odonto-Stomatology at the Hue UMP, said Prof. Shin
Hyo-keun of the and doctors and medical students
from the RoK started to provide operations for 38 patients in 2006.
From then on, the RoK
delegation arranges annual examinations and surgeries for patients at the Hue
UMP, he noted.
To date, the programme
has treated nearly 450 children with facial deformity in Vietnam’s central
region, with about 350 of them receiving free cleft lip surgeries. The
programme also offers opportunities for doctors of Vietnam and the RoK to share
their experiences and improve their skills, he added.
In addition, the two
universities have forged cooperation in many areas, including training and
scientific research, grants for medical students, and admission of Hue UMP’s
trainees to the RoK university, along with the establishment of a phonetic
placement therapy centre for young patients, the first of its kind in the
central and Central Highland regions.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
