April 08, 2020 | 16:21 (GMT+7)
Vietnam Airlines offers free transport for health workers, medical equipment
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has launched a program offering free traveling for health workers engaged in Covid-19 prevention and control work and the transport of medical equipment on its domestic routes, said a representative of the carrier on April 7.
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Vietnam Airlines' crew-members in protective gears (Photo: qdnd.vn) |
Starting from April 9 until April 30, the airline will present free air tickets to doctors, nurses and health experts who are sent on missions related to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is another effort in the national flag carrier's program Flights of Nation to assist with the country's pandemic control since the first COVID-19 cases found in Vietnam. Aside from passenger flights which had brought Vietnamese citizens and foreigners home, Vietnam Airlines has operated flights carrying necessities such as face masks, protective clothing and medical equipment.
It has carried 100,000 face masks, protective clothing, testing systems and COVID-19 test kits as gifts from the Vietnamese Government and people to their Lao and Cambodian counterparts.
Earlier, the airline also carried over three tons of protective clothing and medical masks from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi free-of-charge, and 10 ventilators funded by Temasek Foundation from Singapore to Vietnam.
Source: VNA