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Social News Headlines 7/2
Lang
Son confirms no H7N9 infection
The
National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) has recently quashed
rumours about a possible outbreak of avian flu H7N9 in the northern border
It
received 13 suspected samples for testing from Lang Son and all proved
negative for the deadly A/H7N9 avian flu virus strain, the NIHE said.
All
the patients have high temperatures and they are suspected of catching
measles.
Doctor
Doan The My, Director of the
Lang
Son province has intensified tough measures to combat a possible outbreak of
the H7N9 epidemic which is spreading across southern
Quarantine
units have been established, and sterilization measures undertaken to
strictly monitor immigrants entering Lang Son through border gates and keep a
close watch on severe acute respiratory infections in the community.
Department
Director Tran Chi Dung said that urban management is very important work for
the local authorities since it would help the city ensure its sustainable
development not only in the interim but also in the long-term.
"Acknowledging
this, the department will focus its efforts on post-zoning management work.
To do so, the agency has decided to establish an office which will be
responsible for managing zoning projects after they are implemented,"
Dung told the Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Sai Gon) daily newspaper.
The
agency, which is due to make its debut in the first quarter of this year,
will cover various duties related to planning work, including architecture,
technical design, environmental landscape, and technical infrastructure, he
said.
It
will also monitor the public announcement of zoning projects after they are
approved, and the setting up of landmarks according to planning projects.
"To
ensure the efficacy of the post-zoning management office, DoPA will
coordinate with other departments and districts to make urban development
projects based on the city's socio-economic development in different periods,"
Dung added.
According
to DoPA, the agency has to date, assessed and submitted to the municipal
People's Committee for approval, 22 projects related to adjustments of the
planning of urban and rural districts in the city.
The
department has also implemented the People's Council's Resolution No.
16/2012/NQ-HDND, according to which it approved 283 urban detailed plans with
the ratio 1/2000 on a total area of 47,266 hectares, including179 new plans
with a combined area of 31,657 hectares and 104 adjusted plans with a
combined area of 15,609 hectares.
Before
the resolution, the city had approved 290 detailed urban plans covering on an
area of 35,992 hectares and no adjustments have been required of them to
date.
This
means that the city government has completed the urban detail planning with
the ratio 1/2000 across the whole city.
Ha
Noi suburbs face shortage of clean water
Nearly
65 per cent of Ha Noi's suburban residents were not getting enough clean
water at the end of 2013, due to funds shortage and poor management by the
local authorities.
The
residents of Ba Vi District's Phu Son Commune are suffering due to lack of
safe water supply and many have to use the water from wells, stagnant ponds
and streams.
"For
decades, we have been using such water sources for daily activities such as
bathing and cleaning and have to reserve rainwater for drinking," the
commune's People's Committee chairman Chu Anh Tuan recently told Ha Noi Moi
(New Ha Noi) newspaper.
As
there was no other source of water, localities were forced to use water from
unsafe sources even though the people were aware of the risks and harmful
effects, said Tuan.
Draft
statistics revealed that some 50 per cent of the commune's population had to
buy clean water from vendors in recent years, at prices ranging from
VND70,000 to100,000 (US$3-5) per cubic metre.
On
average, a family has to buy four to six cubic metres of clean water per
month, though the source of this water is not clearly identified.
Phung
Nghia Phong, a resident in Phu Huu Hamlet, said his family spent VND2 to 2.5
million ($95-119) annually on buying clean water, while the total annual
income of the four-member family is between VND15 to 17 million ($700-800).
Those
who cannot afford to buy clean water have to dig holes in their gardens, and
pump sand and water from the Da river, ponds and lakes so that the water
seeps into wells.
The
lack of clean water has also been reported in many other suburban areas such
as Soc Son, Ba Vi, Me Linh, Gia Lam, Phu Xuyen and Ung Hoa districts.
Up to
80 per cent of Thach That District's population has particularly suffered
from a serious shortage of fresh water in both dry and rainy seasons for the
past 10 years.
In
order to tackle the problem, the city has spent over VND100 billion (nearly
$5 million) on a project that will supply clean water to Ha Noi's rural areas
by 2020, according to Dao Duy Tam, deputy director of the city's Agriculture
and Rural Development Department.
Under
the project, 123 clean water supply works have been built in the suburban districts
of the city but many of them have not been used for four or five years due to
shortage of funds and poor management by the local authorities, Tam said. In
addition, the local authorities have not paid adequate attention to managing
and maintaining the treatment plants, he added.
Ha Noi
set a target two months ago that the whole rural population would have access
to clean water by 2015, and 60 per cent of them will have clean water that
meets the Health Ministry's standards.
Forest
fire breaks out in Hoang Lien National Park
Fire
swept through an area of
Despite
difficult hilly terrain, the firefighters managed tostamp out some of the
small fires by noon on February 3.
Nguyen
Ngoc Hinh, Vice Chairman of
However,
300 fight fighters have been mobilized to tackle the fire which is at risk of
spreading to the primeval forest.
It is
estimated that the fire will be extinguished by the end of February 3.
One
killed in
One
local was confirmed dead and four others were injured in a private house fire
in
Nguyen
Thao Phuong Dung, 32, and her friend Thao paid a Tet visit to Ngo Thi Hao,
87, living in on
Hosts
and guests were chatting when the fire broke out from the second floor at
around 04.30pm.
They
all rushed to the third and fourth floors to escape the roaring fire.
Dung
smashed the glass window of the fourth floor, but slipped and fell to the
ground to death.
The
Municipal Fire Brigade deployed 7 fire engines and an access ladder truck to
the scene. The blaze was completely put out in half an hour.
Through
the access ladder, fire fighters rescued four people from smoke inhalation on
the fourth floor who were shortly admitted to Trung Vuong hospital for
treatment.
Many
home furnishings were burnt down at the scene.
First
Vietnamese school for children inaugurated in Japan
Vietnamese
ambassador to Japan Doan Xuan Hung attended the inauguration ceremony of a
Vietnamese school for Vietnamese children in
The
school started a new school year on January 18, with one class for pre-school
children and two classes for primary school children.
It is
designed to not only teach Vietnamese language but organise extracurricular
activities during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, Mid-Autumn Festival (the
eighth full-moon month), and Vietnam Teachers’ Day to educate children about
traditional culture.
Ambassador
Hung acknowledged relevant parties’ efforts in building the school and
expressed his hope the model will be replicated across
Do Van
Trung, Educational Counsellor of the Vietnamese Embassy, stressed the school
will help preserve Vietnamese identity and language for Vietnamese
generations in
He
revealed the model will be multiplied in
Japanese
Ministry of Justice statistics show the number of Vietnamese residents in
Bus
stations in
Mien
Tay (Westbound) bus station, which serves the Mekong Delta, transported
444,000 passengers over the holiday and Mien Dong (Eastbound) bus station,
which operates in the central and
"However,
the number of people who use buses to return to their home town has decreased
from 3 per cent to 5 per cent in comparison with the same period last
year," Tran Van Phuong, deputy director of Mien Tay bus station said.
Thuong
Thanh Hai, deputy director of Mien Dong bus station reported that on February
4, buses began transporting people from central and
At
Binh Khanh ferry, the number of tourists coming to Can Gio has sharply
decreased.
During
peak hours, the Cat Lai ferry, transported 80,000 people from District 2,
According
to the management board of the
The
highway has decreased the journey time from
It is
expected that the number of cars on the highway will increase when people
return after their vacation.
The
Nguyen
Huu Trong, deputy head of the provincial management board of industrial
zones, said that despite economic difficulties, businesses operating in IZs
still receive a lot of orders.
However,
many of them have faced a shortage of employees since 2013, he added.
There
are 127 enterprises operating in three IZs in Nam Dinh, creating jobs for
25,000 people with an average monthly salary of 3.8 million VND (178 USD) per
person.- Poverty reduction, better social welfare named as 2014 tasks
Minister
of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen underscored job
creation, reduction of poor households and guarantee of social welfares as
key 2014 priorities during a recent interview granted to the media.
She
said more ethnic groups have enjoyed better lives thanks to a nation-wide
campaign to eradicate poverty, saying that it has received warm acclaim from
the United Nations and the world.
Chuyen,
however, also admitted that the rate of nearly-poor households and those
relapsing into poverty remains high, as much as 50 percent in some areas.
In
order to resolve this, the ministry will do all it can to ensure basic social
services like health care, education, housing and water supply, information,
legal assistance, production development via incentives, vocational training,
facilitation of agro-forestry-fisheries and infrastructure ramp-up.
Simultaneously,
the sector will review and tailor policies on sustainable poverty reduction,
especially in ethnic communities, while investing in key fields to avoid
wastefulness.
Referring
to vocational training, she said this will generate jobs for over 1.6 million
workers with a focus on the poor, ex-soldiers and those displaced by
construction projects. Up to 1.78 million will be recruited and undergo
training, she said.
According
to her, the ministry will raise allowances and adjust salaries for families
of war heroes, offering 97 percent of them living conditions that are on par
or higher than those in their residential areas. Better care will be given to
those living in need along the way, she added.-
Many
hospitals still ignore social workers
Many
Vietnamese social workers lacked a professional touch, but their role was
still being ignored by most hospitals, said Tran Quy Tuong, deputy director
of the Ministry of Health Medical Services Administration.
Social
work will enhance the quality of the treatment at hospitals. However, many
Vietnamese social workers lack a professional touch and their role is still
being ignored by most hospitals, said Tran Quy Tuong, deputy director of the
Ministry of Health Medical Services Administration.
Social
workers are responsible for guiding new patients on the "ins and
outs" of health procedures, supplying information on hospital services,
giving them psychological support and organising charitable work.
In
2010, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and the Ministry approved a project to
develop social working as a career for the next 10 years. Since then, only a
few hospitals have benefited from the scheme because of a lack of people
interested in the job.
A
recent survey of 22 hospitals across the country showed that only five
hospitals had a unit specialising in social work. But the organisation of the
units varied from place to place. Units were under the managagement board at
one hospital, but controlled by the nursing ward or youth union at other
institutions..
Tuong
said that social workers were the "bridge" connecting patients and
hospital staff, providing benefits to both sides.If allowed to function
properly, they were highly useful in helping rehabilitate and taking care of
the mental health of patients, including the victims of domestic violence and
abuse.
However,
he admitted that most hospitals still thought that social work was simply a
matter of supplying extra information on health care and connecting people
with charity programmes.
Duong
Thi Minh Thu, head of the
He
said the hospital's social workers helped patients and medical workers
understand each other, helped patients and their families clearly understand
the hospital's procedures and health insurance matters. In 2013 alone, its
social workers arranged 80,000 free-of-charge meals and VND4.4 billion
(US$200,500) from charities to support poor patients.
Director
of the HCM City-based 115-bed hospital, Phan Van Bau, said patients felt
relieved to be surrounded by such caring and professional workers. He added
that their work allowed busy doctors and nurses more time to attend to their
own duties.
Tuong
said the two hospitals were rare examples of health-care services that had
activities in place to train and develop the careers of social workers. He
added that the Ministry was compiling a circular regulating their
responsibilities so that everyone knew, including medical staff.
When
the circular is issued, management at hospitals will have to pay much more
attention to developing social-workers' careers because it is a vital part of
the treatment procedure.
Country
reports second human H5N1 avian flu death in 2014
A
woman infected with bird flu virus H5N1 died last week- marking the second
human fatality from the virus in 2014, said Chief of Preventive Medicine Department
Nguyen Dac Phu.
All of
cases infected with the avian fluenza virus have a history of contact with
live poultry.
The
60-year-old woman in Mekong Delta Province of Dong Thap was admitted to
The
woman had a history of contact with live poultry before the onset on her
illness, according to the department.
The
people who had been around the woman are observing closely and the
This
is the second human case of the H5N1 as the virus came back in 2014. Last
month a 52-year-old man in
The
man developed a fever and other symptoms on Jan. 11 after he slaughtered a
duck bought in the village where chickens died of unknown reasons several
days later.
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/Nhandan/SGGP/VGP
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