Hoa Binh, home to over 226,000 children with more than 53,000 Kinh ethnics and 173,000 of other minority groups, has taken child healthcare as an important mission.
Children in Da
Bac district’s Cao Son commune in a football match held by the commune’s youth
union.
The provincial medical sector has realised
various solutions to ensure children’s access to healthcare services while
improving nutrition for them, especially those residing in remote and
ethnic-inhabited regions.
According to statistics from the provincial
Department of Health, in the first half of the year, the rate of underweight
children under five years old was 14.2% and that of stunting kids was 22.7% as
compared to the 26% and the nearly 32% recorded in early 2010.
Medical staff specialising in child health care
have been arranged at 151 medical stations in communes and towns. Meanwhile,
under a programme against malnutrition among the children carried out across
the province, close tabs have been kept on local kids’ growth, micronutrient
and vitamin supplements, and vaccination.
Along with school-based health care, the sector
has stepped up communications work to raise public awareness of the current
healthcare policies and programmes.
In the ongoing summer holiday, local youth
unions at all levels have been organising various activities to improve the
health and spiritual lives of local kids, especially impoverished and ethnic
minority ones.
Recognising the importance of environmental criteria in building new-style rural areas, Hoa Binh province’s Party committees and authorities have focused on protecting the rural and craft village environment. These efforts have transformed the rural landscape and gradually improved local living standards.
With an allocation of 44 billion VND (1.72 million USD) under the national target programme on socio-economic development in the ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas for the 2021-2025 period, Hoa Binh city has invested in the target areas, creating many changes in the living conditions of local ethnic minority communities.
The social security system at all levels in Hoa Binh province has been making concerted efforts to ensure benefits of citizens and workers when they participate in social insurance and health insurance.
With the motto "for the interests of the union members and employees”, in 2024, Tan Lac District’sLabor Federation has implemented many activities towards the grassroots. They have been paying attention and protecting the legitimate and the legal rights of the union members, employees, the civil servants, and laborers, which has been contributing to motivating and encouraging the spirit of the union members and the laborers to enthusiastically compete in labor production, actively contributing to the development of the agencies, units and enterprises.
