City leaders present gifts to children
On Wednesday, which was International Children’s Day, Da Nang Party Committee Secretary Nguyen Xuan Anh visited some child patients in the Internal Intensive Recovery Ward of the Da Nang Maternity and Paediatrics Hospital. The children are suffering from such life-threatening diseases as chronic renal failure, brain tumors, respiratory failure, polio, and septicaemia.
Secretary Anh presented gifts to them and shared his sympathy with their pains. He also encouraged their parents to overcome their difficulties by working with the hospital’s doctors to bring better lives for their children.
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| Secretary Anh with 2 children suffering from chronic renal failure |
During a meeting with the hospital’s leaders, the city leader praised the hospital’s staff for their professional skills and their devotion. He promised that the local authorities will accelerate the 2nd phase of the Maternity and Paediatrics Hospital expansion project in order to reduce the problems of overload at the hospital and meet the increasing demands for medical examinations and treatment.
Currently, the Maternity and Paediatrics Hospital is treating 950 child patients of whom 380 are from other localities. The hospital receives more than 1,000 visitors every day.
On the same day, the municipal People’s Council Deputy Chairman, Mr Nguyen Nho Trung, visited and gave gifts to children being care for at the city’s Centre for Social Protection. He encouraged them to overcome their difficulties by studying well and becoming useful citizens in society.
The Centre for Social Protection is now home to 162 people. Amongst them, 77 are elderly, 59 are disabled, 16 are paralysed or mentally disabled, and the remaining 10 are itinerant beggars.
The Ngu Hanh Son District authorities presented 60 gifts totalling over 35 million VND to local poor children in the Maternity and Paediatrics Hospital. Gifts valued at 150 million VND in total were given to local poor children. The gifts were donated by businesses and charity social welfare organisations in the district.