The Da Nang Cancer Hospital celebrated its 1^st birthday on Monday.  The hospital is the first of its kind in the central region and highlands to provide free examinations and treatment for local poor patients.

After one year of operation, the hospital has given medical checks-up and treatment to 21,000 patients in total, 5,900 of whom were inpatients.  1,039 poor patients have benefited from the hospital’s fee exemptions or reductions, valued at over 800 million VND.  612 of them were from Da Nang, and the remainder were from Quang Nam Province.

The hospital has so far provided free rice soup (chao) to over 172,000 poor patients, and free accommodation for 938 people who were relatives of patients.

The Da Nang Cancer Hospital

Also on Monday, a meeting to review the past year’s performance of the city’s Association for Supporting Poor and Disadvantaged Women and Children took place in the city.

In 2014, the Association aims to raise 4.5 billion VND to fund surgeries for 70 local children with congenital heart complaints, and another 500 million VND to provide cancer screening programmes for 600 local poor women. 

A focus will be on covering 3 billion VND of hospital fee exemptions and reductions for poor patients, as well as presenting 500 Tet gifts to them. 

Every district of the city will give top priority to raising over 100 million VND from generous domestic and foreign donors.  The city’s Village of Hope will continue its efforts to bring up 120 orphaned children here.