In order to help ethnic minorities have access to medical care, the military medical force of the Kon Tum provincial Border Guard regularly organizes free health examination and medicine presentation programs in Sa Loong commune. This deed is one of the social activities with profound humanistic meaning, leaving good impression on the people's hearts.
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Local people having their health checked |
In each program, hundreds of locals from villages of So Loong commune flock to the Medical Center of the commune to have their health checked and receive medicine. In a recent event, the military medical personnel of the provincial Border Guard Command added many good quality drugs to meet the requirements of medical examination and treatment for the locals.
Colonel Nguyen Van Dung, Head of the Military Medical Department of the Kon Tum provincial Border Guard Command, said, “Through the free medical examination and medicine program, we have seen that locals’ common diseases are high blood pressure, arthritis, stomachache, skin diseases, and some respiratory diseases. We have examined, offered free prescription drugs, and consulted people on how to treat some common diseases.”
According to Mr. A Xem, a local from Giang Lo 2 village, he annually has his health examined and is given free medicines by the border guard’s military medical officers. Sometimes the military staff come to his house to provide free health check-up for him. Sometimes they leave notice of concentrated medical examination in the commune.
Mr. A Xem is suffering from many chronic diseases such as polyarthritis, respiratory inflammation, and high blood pressure, so he needs regular medication. Therefore, he said that he felt grateful to the care of medical staff of the provincial border guard force.
At present, most people in the border area of Ngoc Hoi district live far from medical centers and hospitals. Since roads are difficult to travel, medical personnel of the province’s border guard have provided locals with first aid when they are ill or have accidents.
Over the years, doctors and nurses of Kon Tum province’s Border Guard Command have provided treatment for many people suffering from serious illnesses and accidents. With their good deeds, ethnic minority people in the border area of Ngoc Hoi district consider border guard troops their relatives.
Translated by Tran Hoai