As many as 6,000 young doctors are joining a national voluntary campaign to offer free diagnoses and medicine to poor people as well as provide first aid training to teachers at kindergartens and primary schools across Viet Nam.

The campaign, which began yesterday, is expected to provide free medicine and diagnoses to 100,000 poor people in all 63 provinces and cities in the country.

The physicians will also conduct free eye surgery on 1,000 elderly people and give first aid lessons to 5,000 teachers from 700 kindergartens and primary schools.

A young doctor checks the mouth of a child during the national voluntary campaign

The campaign will also mobilize people to donate blood at an estimated amount of 13,000 units, or 3,259 liters of blood.

It will arrange for 50,000 children to take part in an activity to wash their hands with soap to prevent and fight epidemics.

This marks the fifth consecutive year of the annual campaign, starting in 2011.

The 2015 campaign is the start of a plan to give humanitarian diagnoses to one million needy people this year, as steered by the Ministry of Health, Viet Nam People’s Army, Viet Nam Red Cross, and Viet Nam Association of Young Doctors.

(Source: tuoitrenews)