Additional 1,815 health insurance cards granted to needy women

Since April 2017, Phu Giao district’s Women’s Union has raised more than 7,500 piggybanks under the model of “Raising piggybanks to reduce poverty and buy health insurance cards for poor women”.

Accordingly, as of late 2018, there were 588 collective piggybanks and 6,972 individual piggybanks with more than VND1.8billion. The fund was used to buy 1,815 health insurance cards worth VND1.2billion for model participants; support 12 needy women to buy health insurance cards worth approximately VND8million; provide officials and members with preferential loans…

Reported by Da Binh-Translated by K.T