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.
The emulation movement "Hoa Binh joining hands to build new-style rural areas” has been widely spreading, becoming a driving force that motivates the localities to renew rural landscapes and improve the material and spiritual lives of the residents. In this movement, the people play a central role-both as the main implementers and direct beneficiaries of its outcomes.
In response to the global digital revolution, Hoa Binh Newspaper is transforming itself into a modern and multi-platform media hub, blending cutting-edge technology with a restructured newsroom and a new generation of tech-savvy journalists.
Hoa Binh province’s Association of the Elderly recently held a conference to review the project on expanding the inter-generation self-help club model until 2025.
In a move to implement Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW, issued on December 22, 2024 by the Politburo, which targets breakthroughs in science-technology development, innovation, and digital transformation, the Hoa Binh provincial Department of Health has issued a plan to roll out the "Digital Literacy for All” campaign within the local health sector.
An Nghia Commune (Lạc Sơn District) is one of the communes that achieved the tha standard of the national new rural area in 2018. Entering a new development phase, the commune is now trying to meet the criteria for the advanced new rural development. With the strong political will and the public consensus, the commune is gradually overcoming the challenges to reach this goal, aiming for the sustainable development.
