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Social News 22/1
Students stable after anaphylactic shock
The 35 students who experienced anaphylactic shock after being
vaccinated in a secondary school in southern
On Monday, 35 students at
Doctors said these students were possibly in anaphylactic shock.
The rest of the vaccines were revoked for testing.
Head of the centre Nguyen Van Muoi said all the students would
be discharged from the hospital and resume their studies soon.
Under the measles and rubella vaccination campaign launched by
the provincial health sector, children between 1 and 14 years old are being
vaccinated from October to the end of this month.
Ha Noi treated nearly 20,000 patients with mental illnesses
last year, an increase of 2,000 over 2013, said Ly Tran Tinh, director of Ha
Noi Mental Hospital.
In previous years, some medical stations even did not have any
doctors specialising in mental health. Now medical stations have independent
wards for mental illness patients. Each ward has between one and three
doctors, and between one and five nurses, according to Tinh.
Medical stations across the city also organised monthly health
examinations and distributed medicine to patients. Some stations also had
monthly meetings where they discussed patients' conditions.
Mental illnesses treated include schizophrenia, depression,
epilepsy and those caused by heroin addiction.
"Schizophrenia is one of the most difficult diseases to
deal with, but it can be treated if it is discovered early," Tinh said.
Last year more than 8,000 schizophrenia patients living in
more than 580 wards and communes received treatment.
The city distributed more than 40,000 leaflets to spread
knowledge of mental illnesses. It also organised training courses for social
workers, schools and families on recognising early signs of mental illness.
It also distributed its first survey on children's mental
health in eight primary and secondary junior schools. The students were asked
about feelings, behaviours, making friends and social skills. The results
showed that the most common mental health issue was attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Children who showed signs of ADHD were treated
at Ha Noi Mental Hospital.
This year, the city's mental health sector would focus on
three main goals, Tinh said. It would improve medical stations' capacities,
improve the quality of treatment for patients who don't stay in the hospital
to prevent them from discontinuing their treatment and give mental health
workers more training, Tinh said.
Hotline helps to restore public trust in local healthcare
sector
After last year's success, the health sector plans to continue
its patient feedback hotline in 2015 and will beef up staff to ensure that
claims are tackled 24/7.
The hotline received positive comments as well as complaints
in 2014, according to Nguyen Xuan Truong, chief of the Health Ministry's
Office. In the first three months of 2014, it received only three compliments
but by November, it had received 21, proving its effectiveness, said Truong.
In 2014, the province that registered the highest number of
calls to the hotline was Ha Noi with 1,978 calls, followed by
In Ha Noi, the Viet Nam National Hospital of Pediatrics topped
all hospitals with 121 calls, followed by
In
"Patients asked about everything from insurance policy
and consulting services to the long wait time. About 80 per cent of the
questions, which averaged 10 per day, sought advice about health
conditions," said Le Tien Ngai, director of the Training Department of
the Viet Nam National Hospital of Pediatrics, where six or seven members of
the hospital's director board and department directors take calls. Ngai and
his colleagues also use the hotline to inform people on new policies such as
the increased hospital fee.
In 2014, the health sector received 98,760 calls through its
hotlines. However, only 36 per cent conveyed the right content whilst 64 per
cent referred the problems to the wrong place. At Ngai's hospital, only 20
per cent of calls are classified as "having appropriate content"
for the hotline.
While there were fewer complaints about the procedure for
medicinal examination and treatment, many complaints remained about the health
staff's attitudes towards patients.
Moreover, many patients failed to call the hotline despite
suffering miserable experiences because they did not expect anything to
change.
Ha Noi resident Tran Xuan Thang, 40, said that well-known
State-owned hospitals such as Bach Mai, Thanh Nhan, 108 were "always
overcrowded" and undergoing a consultation and testing took the whole
day.
Thang said one of his old classmates went to
This is the kind of complain that the hotline aims to resolve.
Truong said that the ministry had been highly responsive to urgent requests
and resolved complaints swiftly. The ministry took prompt action after
receiving a call via the hotline accusing health workers at central An Giang
Hospital of negligence for abandoning a pregnant woman who was in delivery to
turn to another who gave bribes to them, thus causing the death of the baby,
who should have been transferred quickly to another hospital. After being
informed, the Department of Health in An Giang Province had the hospital set
up a professional council to review the process of examination and treatment.
As a result, a doctor was suspended from operating for three months, a
midwife was reprimanded and an assistant doctor was fired.
The most common ways to discipline staff were reprimands and
bonus cuts. In serious cases involving legal violations, hospitals took
disciplinary action such as firing and demoting workers. Last year 6,807
health workers were warned, 137 were reprimanded, 116 had their bonuses cut,
18 were transferred to other places of work, six were demoted and four were
fired.
Overloading lifted in hospitals
Overloading at hospitals in
The conference was held to review efforts to reduce
overloading and implement the sector's plans for medical examinations and
treatment this year.
Luong Ngoc Khue, head of the Ministry of Health's Medical
Examination and Treatment Department, said hospital overloading had fallen by
58 per cent in national level hospitals and 47 per cent in provincial level
hospitals.
In addition, patients no longer had to share beds in hospitals
such as Bach Mai in Ha Noi, Cho Ray in
In 2014, the health sector applied a new method to evaluate
the quality of hospitals based on patient-centred principles. Administrative
procedures were also reformed, cutting down the waiting time for patients by
nearly one hour.
Vietnamese doctors applied new advanced techniques in 2014,
including robotic surgery and stem cell transplants for cancer treatment.
Technology transfer was carried out with many satellite hospitals, which
helped reduce the rate of patients transferred to national level hospitals to
30 per cent.
Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien urged directors to reduce overloading
at their hospitals and to stamp out bed-sharing. She said added five more
international-standard hospitals would be built this year.
Education key to poverty eradication
Education plays a crucial role in enabling impoverished
children and communities to partake in economic development as well as
maintaining long-term development, a recent study of childhood poverty
reveals.
"The study results indicate obvious progress in expanding
educational opportunities and improving nutrition for poor children,"
said Young Lives Viet Nam country co-director Nguyen Thang, who is also
director of the
During the 15-year study, which focused on Lao Cai, Hung Yen,
Phu Yen and Ben Tre provinces as well as the central city of
In terms of education and learning, parents' education levels
have a measurable impact on their children's learning process. Young adults
with high-educated parents from the middle class are more likely to pursue
higher education while as many as 13 per cent of children of mothers with
limited education left school by age 12.
Notably, the rate of students taking extra classes rose
substantially between 2006 and 2013.
Regarding nutrition and health, stunted growth among
12-year-old children decreased. Malnutrition also decreased for most groups,
with the exception of ethnic minority groups and children whose caregivers
had no formal schooling.
Nguyen Quang Thuan, vice director of the Vietnamese Academy of
Social Sciences, said the Young Lives findings would contribute to improving
government policies to address childhood poverty.
"Inequalities remain. However, the latest results reveal
a number of stages in which policymakers can intervene to support the
development of poor children," said Thuan.
Young Lives Viet Nam principal investigator Le Thuc Duc said
the present challenge was ensuring that all children were beneficiaries.
Additional policies concentrated on the living conditions of ethnic minority
groups were likely to lead to positive changes, he added.
The Young Lives programme has carried out scientific studies
on 12,000 children living across
Budget cuts puts
More money is needed to ensure safety for
Ha Thai Railroad Co., Ltd. said it receive only VND20.8
billion (US$990,500) to maintain the 30-year-old bridge in 2015, a
significant decrease from the VND24.7 billion (US$1.17 million) budget it had
in previous years.
"We could barely temporarily guarantee the bridge's
safety with the previous budget, let alone with the limited one this year. In
the meantime, more and more breakages and cracks are being found at the
bridge's expansion joints," said company director Nguyen Ba Thuc.
"It will be very difficult for the company to maintain
the bridge with the lower budget."
In addition to scheduled fixes, several urgent repairs were
made after sudden breakages took place at the bridge's expansion joints,
added Thuc.
The bridge's expansions joints on the car lanes' surface
require a major overhaul, the first since the bridge opened to traffic in
1985.
Thuc said that his company submitted a proposal for a major
overhaul at the expansion joints in 2010.
An urgent message signed by Minister of Transport Dinh La
Thang yesterday asked the Viet Nam Railway Corporation to replace the
expansion joints on the bridge's car lanes following assessments showing that
parts of the joints were broken beyond repair.
However, the specific parts needing to be replaced are no
longer being produced, as they date back to the
Cracks on Thang Long Bridge's surface remain a problem even
though VND97 billion ($4.6 million) was spent to fix the surface in 2009,
later followed by three long repairs: one from March 2010 to September 2011,
the second from January 2012 to May 2012 and the third from July to August
2012.
Transport Ministry to tighten control over transport fees
The Ministry would work with the Ministry of Finance to
instruct their departments in provinces and cities to control transport fees
which have been in confusion this year, said Minister of Transport Dinh La
Thang at a conference yesterday.
The Transport Ministry must tighten management over transport
fees and carry out investigations ensuring that they operate under the state-managed
market mechanism, he said.
At the conference Mr. Thang also asked authorized agencies and
transport firms to have plans to meet travel need of residents in the coming
Tet holidays, ensure traffic safety, and prevent coach operators from
rocketing up the fare and raise difficulties for passengers.
Health Ministry tries to reduce overloading in hospitals
18 big hospitals were no longer overloaded by January 2015,
said Dr. Luong Ngoc Khue, head of the Health Ministry’s Medical Examination
and Treatment Department.
These hospitals including hospitals for senior people,
endocrine, for children, oral and maxiallo facial surgery and ear-nose-throat
are not overloaded any longer, said Dr. Luong Ngoc Khue
In addition, it has not seen two or more patients in one bed
in hospitals such as Bach Mai in Hanoi, Cho Ray in Ho Chi Minh City and the
Central Hospital Hue, he added.
To reduce pressures on central hospitals and curb dramatic
shortage of treatment beds that, the Ministry of Health ordered hospitals to
report the situation of overloading every week to soon handle. Furthermore,
the ministry announced to pay more supervision to hospitals whose directors
must sign commitment not to tolerate more patients in one bed.
The ministry will strictly penalize leaders of hospitals which
the Ministry has found examination section dirty and more patients in one
bed.
HCM City launches “2015 traffic safety year” campaign
The HCM City Traffic Safety Board held a launching ceremony of
the “2015 traffic safety year” campaign on January 20 with the participation
of 1,400 people.
The campaign aims to strengthen responsibility and task
effectiveness on safe traffic of governmental management agencies, highlight
strict management of transport business, and control of vehicle loading
capacity and puts top priority on protecting human life.
The event also focuses on establishing and maintaining social
order in transport, ensuring the safety for people, vehicles in traffic as
well as making traffic environment safe and civilized.
Tobacco smuggling has to be tackled harshly
Preliminary statistics show that police had uncovered 34,636
cases of cigarette smuggling with more than 20.38 million packs of various
kinds of cigarettes since 2012 to the end of September 2014. However, cigarette
smuggling continues rising and provoking authorities.
An assessment by the Vietnam Tobacco Association and reports
by provincial police offices show that the amount of smuggled cigarettes into
Vietnam in 2014 was estimated above 20 million packs. Hot spots for cigarette
smuggling include Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, Ha Noi, Quang Tri, Da Nang, Can Tho,
Tay Ninh, Long An, An Giang, Dong Thap, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Traffickers usually gather cigarettes at warehouses along
borders in neighboring countries then smuggle cigarettes into Vietnam by
high-speed vehicles on both water and land. They also split cigarettes into
small packets to easily transport and evade hot pursuits of police.
As traffickers always use high-speed vehicles to transport
smuggled goods, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, deputy head of Anti-smuggling and
Investigation Department under the Vietnam Customs, proposed that the
government should immediately equip advanced means of transport for police at
smuggling hot spots.
Cigarettes traffickers also take advantage of loopholes in
current law. Although police had uncovered 34,636 cases of cigarette
smuggling from 2012 to the end of September 2014, police were only able to
take criminal proceedings against 369 cases with 488 arrestees because
traffickers are only prosecuted as criminal cases for smuggling more than
1,500 packs of cigarettes by law. Meanwhile, traffickers split their
goods when transporting, therefore, the amount of smuggled goods was not
enough to constitute them as criminals.
Ho Chi Minh City police are highly appreciated for
achievements in the fight against cigarette smuggling. However, according to
Major General Phan Anh Minh, deputy director of Ho Chi Minh City Police
Department, police have just punished hirelings instead of kingpins of cigarette
smuggling gangs.
Experts said that although the temporary import and re-export
activity of foreign-made cigarettes creates conditions to develop commercial
services, the money collected from this activity is not able to make up for
the cost for road maintenance and anti-smuggling. Meanwhile, this activity is
intricate and contains high risk of smuggling.
The main reason for the increase of cigarette smuggling is
that residents living along the border, because of their daily bread, join
hands with smugglers to transport cigarettes into the country. Mr. Minh said
that most people living along the border are farmers. After industrial parks
were built here, they no longer have land for farming so they had to join
cigarette smuggling gangs to get money. Therefore, settlement of livelihood
for border residents plays an important role in the fight against cigarette
smuggling.
Mr. Tuan also proposed that the government and local
authorities should have policies to create more jobs in border areas
Two thirds of Vietnamese have health insurance
At an annual meeting of Vietnam Insurance Company on January
19 in Hanoi, participants discussed how to promote issuance of health
insurance cards to residents as per the new insurance law which the National
Assembly has approved took effects on January 1, 2015.
Head of the Collection Ward of Vietnam Insurance Company Pham
Van Men said that as of 2014 the country had 64,866,201 health and
social insurance card holders.
Total collection from health and social insurance across the
country reaches VND198,186 billion (US$9.3 million), exceeding the target by
1.18 percent. However, some enterprises and organizations still owed total
sum of VND7,279 billion (US$ 340,657) on health and social insurance.
In 2014, 50 local insurance companies claims to proceed
against 5,832 companies for the debt of VND2,445 billion (US$ 114.9 million)
but just recovered VND621 billion (US$29.1 million).
Most concerned matter is the form of old cards and new cards
while the insurance companies have not changed it yet. However, Chu Minh To,
head of the issuance bureau said that as of January 19, 2015, of 65 million
insurance card holders across the country, nearly 30 million people have
received new cards and 34.994 million cards have expiry date to 2015 which
people can continue using.
Nguyen Minh Thao, deputy director of Vietnam Insurance
Company, confirmed that there are faults in issuing cards including wrong
names, date of birth, location. Of 57,000 insurance cards issued in the
highlands province of Dak Lak, nearly 40,000 cards have wrong details which
schools provide wrong details and employees of the insurance companies input
wrong data of 17,000 other cases.
Vietnam Insurance Company has asked its subdivision in Dak Lak
Province of check all information in the issued insurance cards to re-issue.
Insurance participants’ interest will be guaranteed while waiting for the new
ones. The insurance company will verify the responsibility of each individual
who involved in the cases.
Workshop seeks to help Vietnam strengthen governance for
development
Experts gathered at a high-level workshop in Hanoi on January
20 to share their experience and practices in order to combat corruption in
the implementation of ODA projects.
The workshop, co-organised by the World Bank and Vietnam’s
Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), aims to help the Vietnamese
Government take measures to strengthen governance for accelerated
development.
According to the World Bank Country Director for Vietnam,
Victoria Kwakwa, loans from international donors have made a significant
contribution to Vietnam’s growth but the country is facing a number of
challenges, most notably corruption in ODA projects.
She said in order to streamline foreign assistance and
eliminate corruption, Vietnam needs to strengthen governance and create equal
opportunities for all economic sectors to participate in development
projects.
MPI Deputy Minister Nguyen Chi Dung said in recent years
Vietnam has adopted and amended a number of laws such as those on public
procurement, bidding and anti-corruption in order to increase transparency,
as well as create a competitive environment for all enterprises.
In a paper prepared for the workshop, Deputy Head of the
Government Inspectorate Tran Duc Luong suggested encouraging the supervision
of the public, particularly the press, as an effective measure to tackle
fraud and corruption in ODA projects.
Conchita Carpio Morales, the former associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the Philippines, shared the experience of the operation of
the Office of Ombudsman as a leading anti-graft agency in the Philippines.
She said the Office gives the highest priority to complaints
filed against senior government officials and those occupying supervisory
roles involving grave offences or large sums of money or properties.
Ministry keeps tight controls on truck loads
The Ministry of Transport and the National Traffic Safety
Committee have decided to continue strict controls on truck loads this year
with an aim to restore traffic order and reduce road accidents.
This year, the transport sector wants to reduce traffic
accidents nationwide and the number of people killed and injured on the road
by 5-10%, and serious accidents related to passenger cars, according to the
National Traffic Safety Committee.
To this end, the ministry will review regulations and
introduce new rules to better manage transport business and control loads of
vehicles, the committee said at a review conference in Hanoi on January 19.
Another goal is to prevent traffic jams lasting more than 30
minutes in Hanoi and HCMC by boosting infrastructure development and
encouraging the use of public buses. The committee is also working on a
project to provide bicycles in public places in cities to reduce traffic
congestion.
According to the committee’s report, from December 16, 2013 to
December 15, 2014, the number of traffic accidents decreased by more than
4,000 cases year-on-year, but the number of people killed and injured was
still high, at nearly 9,996 and more than 24,400 respectively.
Since last year, the ministry has cooperated with the Ministry
of Public Security and local authorities to tighten controls on truck load
violators. The authorities have set up 63 mobile weigh stations nationwide to
detect overloaded trucks and deal with 1,169 vehicles violating traffic
safety regulations.
Nguyen Van Thanh, chairman of the Vietnam Transport
Association, told the conference that many inspections have not brought as
good results as expected since inspectors threatened to withdraw the licenses
of transport enterprises rather than showing their wrongdoing.
Thanh said many overloaded trucks have not been fined since
the ministry launched its load check campaign in the country nine months ago.
Many trucks meet weight requirements at the port but after they leave, they
will upload more goods to dodge inspections at the port.
Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang said the ministry would
make effort to restore order and take strong punitive measures against those
inspectors pestering transport enterprises.
Vietnam attends Young SE Asia Leaders Initiative
Ngo Chi Long, a student at the Hue University of Medicine and
Pharmacy, recently addressed the members of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders
Initiative in Myanmar.
In his speech he talked about the growing gap between rich and
poor and also on the differences in rural and urban health care
systems. The speech was well received and spoken about highly by the US
embassy.
He also had the opportunity to meet US President Barack Obama.
Launched in 2013, the initiative is U.S. President Barack
Obama’s signature programme aimed at strengthening leadership development and
networking in ASEAN.
Its members are composed of bright young leaders, 18-35, from
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma, Philippines, Laos, Singapore,
Thailand and Vietnam.
Mekong Delta: policy loans help 230,000 households rid of
poverty
The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) have provided
preferential loans for 1.4 million poor and near-poor households and policy
beneficiaries in the Mekong Delta region between 2011-2014.
The loans enabled 230,000 of the targeted households to escape
from poverty and 29,000 students to continue their study, and helped create
88,000 job opportunities and build 554,000 clean water supply facilities and
toilets.
The assistance contributed to regional joint efforts to reduce
poverty rate to only 5.7 percent in 2014, heard a conference to review
results of a three-year project to improve service quality of policy credit
in the region.
After three years, the VBSP had a total credit balance of 22.4
trillion VND (1.12 billion USD), up 5.5 trillion VND since the project began.
The region’s average credit growth remained at 10.76 percent annually, above
the national rate of 7.76 percent.
Deputy Head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic
Commission Le Vinh Tan suggested several measures to reduce overdue debts for
the VBSP and Mekong Delta provinces, including clearer identification of
benefiting households and more transparent loan procedures.
In 2015, the bank targets a credit growth of 9 percent with
the rate of overdue debts at 0.7 percent, below the regional average.
People-to-people activities to be fostered in 2015
Vietnam will continue enhancing people-to-people diplomatic
activities associated with the celebration of the country’s big anniversaries
in 2015, heard a meeting of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations
(VUFO)’s executive board in Hanoi on January 20.
VUFO is a socio-political organisation specialising in
people-to-people diplomacy and working under the Communist Party of Vietnam’s
leadership and the State’s management.
For 2015, it plans to organise an array of activities
honouring the international community’s support on the occasion of the 70th
National Day (September 2) and the 40th anniversary of the Southern Vietnam
Liberation and National Reunification Day (April 30).
A series of programmes will also be held throughout the year
to mark 20 years since Vietnam and the US normalised their relations.
VUFO will increase people-to-people exchanges with ASEAN and
European nations as well as with the US, Canada, and Latin American and
African countries while actively calling for assistance to the settlement of
war aftermath.
A report at the meeting read that foreign non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) supported Vietnam with more than 300 million USD in
2014. They tend to provide development assistance instead of those solely for
humanitarian purposes.
Don Tuan Phong, VUFO General Secretary and Vice Chairman, said
the organisation will strive to connect foreign donors and NGOs with domestic
ministries, sectors and localities and actively design and propose projects
in need of support.
Over 170 trillion VND needed to build Mekong Delta
irrigational system
The Mekong Delta region needs over 170 trillion VND (8.1
billion USD) to complete its water resource system in line with the proposed
plan by 2050.
The plan aims to create a irrigational system for agriculture
production in response to climate change and rising sea level, as well as to
contribute to socio-economic development, ecological protection, and
sustainable development in the region.
The capital, to be sourced from central and local budgets,
government bonds, and official development assistance (ODA) loans, will be
allocated for the construction of dykes, drains, and reservoirs.
To achieve these targets, investments have been made to build
irrigational works and upgrade dykes and coastal roads. The plan also
highlighted the need to develop rural transport infrastructure to facilitate
the construction of “new-style rural areas” in areas prone to flooding.
Additionally, specific solutions have been tailored to match the specific
needs of each province in the region.
Localities and relevant agencies have been urged to plant
coastal mangroves, protect national parks, and take flood precautions to
assist residents in frequently affected areas.
To date, the water resource system in the Mekong Delta has
made great contributions to improving alum rates in drinking water in Tu Giac
Long Xuyen region, Dong Thap Muoi region, and the Ca Mau peninsula as well as
managing erosion and sediment in national parks.
However, coastal areas still lack water supply production and
investment for the building and management of the irrigational system
required to capitalise on socio-economic development potential for the
southern economic region.
Crop restructuring helps reduce poverty in Bac Can
In recent years, farmers in the northern province of Bac Can
have paid much attention to developing fruit orchards, with priority given to
growing oranges and mandarins, contributing to local poverty reduction,
reported The Voice of Vietnam (VOV).
Orchards of oranges and mandarins cover an area of 1,500
hectares in the three districts of Bach Thong, Cho Don, and Ba Be. As harvest
time begins during the last months of the year, the roads leading to Bach
Thong district, about 10 km from Bac Can town, are always crowded with
traders coming to buy oranges and mandarins.
Ma Van Cuong, who lives in Na Thoi hamlet, Quang Thuan
commune, Bach Thong district, told VOV that "We are very excited as the
harvest time begins. My family and other households in Na Thoi can earn up to
1,000 USD a year by growing oranges and mandarins in addition to farming.
Local living conditions have improved remarkably."
Mandarins grown on Quang Thuan commune’s 400 ha account for 40
percent of the province’s total mandarin orchards.
Cao Xuan Lang, Chairman of the Quang Thuan Communal Farmers’
Association, said his commune has harvested approximately 3,000 tonnes of
mandarins worth of 1.6 million USD.
Local farmers are more interested in expanding their orange
and mandarin orchards to reduce poverty, Lang said, adding that on average,
95 percent of the households in Quang Thuan own 2ha of mandarins. Some
households earn as much as 30,000 USD from their orchards every year.
Besides, they paid much attention to improving the
productivity of their orange and mandarin orchards.
Bac Can authorities also encouraged and supported local
farmers in applying advanced technology to raise their orchards’
productivity.
Dang Van Son, Deputy Director of the Bac Can provincial
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that the province has
taken proper steps to protect the trademark and boost productivity.
Dong Nai to present Tet gifts to poor, AO victims
The Committee of the Fatherland Front of southern Dong Nai
province has prepared more than 1,600 gift packages, each worth 400,000 VND
(19 USD), to be given to local poor and ethnic minority households on the
occasion of the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.
The gifts will be presented to the beneficiaries from January
28 in an effort to help them enjoy a warm Tet holiday, according to the
committee’s Chairman Vy Van Vu.
In the same action, the provincial chapter of the Vietnam
Association of the Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin and philanthropists are also
going to present nearly 1,000 gifts, each worth 500,000 VND, to AO victims in
the locality.-
Quang Ninh VBS chapter honoured with State distinction
Quang Ninh chapter of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)
honourably received the Labour Order, third class, at a ceremony held in Ha
Long city in the northeast province of Quang Ninh on January 19.
On this occasion, the 10th anniversary of the Quang Ninh VBS
chapter (January 21, 2005-2015) was also celebrated.
Over the past ten years, the Quang Ninh VBS chapter has made
significant contributions to provincial construction, participating in
building and protecting the country under the leadership of the national VBS
and support from Quang Ninh leaders, according to Most Venerable Thich Thanh
Quyet, Vice Chairman of the VBS Central Committee’s Executive Board and Head
of the Executive Board of the Quang Ninh VBS chapter.
The ceremony was organised in line with the Party’s policy of
safeguarding citizens’ rights to freedom of religion and belief and was
designed to highlight the chapter’s great progress across various fields.-
Global conference on aquatic animal health kicks off in HCM
City
The third Global Conference on Aquatic Animal Health opened on
January 20 in Ho Chi Minh City with an emphasis on the role of State
management of aquaculture health.
Bernard Vallat, General Director of the World Organisation for
Animal Health (OIE), said while aquaculture products account for nearly half
of seafood supply worldwide, diseases have caused significant damage to
aquaculture, bringing adverse impacts on the economy of some countries and
regions.
Therefore, it is necessary to boost the State management of
aquaculture health services and the effectively implementation of policies in
the field as well as OIE standards to prevent and curb diseases in
aquaculture, he said.
The conference will also discuss the role and responsibility
of key factors in the production chain, including farmers, processors,
private veterinarians and aquatic animal health experts as well as the
importance of the cooperative relationship among these factors, he added.
Addressing the conference, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and
Rural Development Vu Van Tam said that as a member nation of the OIE, Vietnam
commits to working closely with the international community for the effective
implementation of aquatic animal health work, thus contributing to the
effective control of diseases as well as antibiotic content in aquatic
products.
The deputy minister said the aquaculture industry has to date
made significant contributions to the country’s economic development but also
pointed out that the sector is facing unsustainable development.
Vietnam, he said, is taking many measures to prevent and
control diseases as well as the use of chemicals and antibiotics in
aquaculture.
The export of aquatic products earned the country 7.9 billion
USD in 2014, an annual increase of 18 percent.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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