This is the second time the program has been held in Dak Nong. The program was supported by the doctors of the Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University Hospital and the Dak Nong provincial General Hospital.

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Leaders of Dak Nong province and the organizers of the "Heart for you" program in a joint photo
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A doctor gives an echocardiogram for a child.

“Heart for you” is a program providing free screening for children under 16 years old suspected of having the congenital heart disease in Vietnam and supporting disadvantaged kids with the congenital heart disease get free heart surgery.

Initiated by Viettel and the Vietnamese Heart Fund in 2008, the program has provided free heart operations for 6,500 children across the country and organized 88 free heart disease screening programs for nearly 150,000 children in areas with difficult conditions throughout the country.

Translated by Song Anh