July 31, 2017 | 20:34 (GMT+7)
Army units provide health checkups for over 55,000 people
PANO - More than 55,000 national contributors and poor people nationwide have received free health checkups and medicines from military agencies and units since the beginning of this year.
The figure was released in a report on the army’s outcomes in conducting programs of providing humanitarian health checkups, treatment and healthcare for the public in the first half of 2017.
Photo for illustration. Source: caobangtv.vn
The report was prepared by of the Department of Mass Mobilization of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army. Specifically, through over 100 health checkup and consultation drives, the whole army has given the needy free medicines, valued at nearly VND 1.3 billion in total.
They have also inquired after and presented more than 10,000 gifts, 56 houses of great unity to national contributors and medical equipment to medical stations in remote, mountainous, border areas and in revolutionary bases in the hope of bettering care for local people. The gifts were worth over VND 10 billion.
Notably, troops have contributed more than 2,000 working days to the building of new-style rural areas in different localities.
Troops’ good deeds have helped tighten the ties between the army and people.
Translated by Mai Huong