Vice President visits child patients ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan presents gifts to child patients at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (Photo: VNA)

The annual festival is considered a traditional occasion exclusively for children.

Xuan expressed her hope that the children will continue to overcome their diseases and soon return to normal life.

The Vice President spoke highly of efforts made by medical workers at the NIHBT who are striving to contain the spread of COVID-19 and at the same time taking care of regular patients.

She voiced a hope that in the coming time, the institute will introduce more research studies and strategic activities to enhance position of Vietnam’s medical sector at the regional and international arenas, and provide better health care services, especially for the vulnerable like children.

Head of the NIHBT Dr. Bach Quoc Khanh said that the institute takes care of about 1,200 patients each day, of them 25 percent are children.

Of over 250 children currently receiving inpatient care, over 65 percent are from rural areas and nearly 40 percent from disadvantaged and near-poor families, he added.

In addition to providing treatment, the NIHBT has joined hands with organisations and individuals to arrange online courses and other programmes supporting the child patients and their families./.

VNA