Nearly 19,000 people under free medical check-up

Over the past five years, Phu Giao district’s Red Cross Society coordinated with relevant units to provide free medical check-up, medicine for nearly 19,000 people and present gifts to more than 2,620 people with a total expense of more than VND3billion; examined and provided free cataract surgeries for approximately 360 people with a total expense of more than VND367million; mobilized organizations and individuals to give 76 wheelchairs worth more than VND250million for the handicapped…

The local Red Cross Society also mobilized more than VND240million from organizations and individuals to build a center for Agent Orange victims under the Vietnam Red Cross Society and collected 4,997 units of blood.

Reported by Hai Sam-Translated by K.T