In addition to wholeheartedly treating patients at medical establishments across Da Nang, members of the city’s Young Physicians Association have actively been involved in implementing a large number of deeply meaningful volunteer programmes for community healthcare across the city and other localities nationwide.

Young medical workers who are Youth Union members are seen supporting patients at the city’s Paediatric and Maternity Hospital

Recently, young doctors from the Association provided free medical check-ups and medicines for a total of over 500 elderly people in Son Tra District. Besides, gifts totalling more than 40 million VND were given to 100 poor senior citizens in this district.

Despite his old age, 70-year-old Tran Van Khoa from Man Thai Ward, one of the beneficiaries, who suffered from minor complications, decreased vision and arthritis, highly applauded the volunteer doctors and nurses for their friendliness and enthusiasm.

In addition to giving careful medical examinations, they offered advices and consultancy for taking prescription medicines.

When travelling through many mountainous areas across the city, medical workers witnessed that many local residents found it very difficult to access healthcare services in their localities. Therefore, this inspired them to make greater efforts to provide healthcare service for local residents.

“Such meaningful programme gave us the opportunity to enhance our professional skills, and understand thoroughly difficult lives of mountainous people as well”, a volunteer doctor remarked.

Over the past years, the Association has actively implemented such highly practical volunteer programmes for community healthcare across the city as ‘Young Doctors Follow Uncle Ho’s teaching to Take Actions for Community Healthcare’, and ‘Summer Volunteer’.

Through the charitable activities, the Association offered medical check-ups, medicines and health consultancy to thousands of people in the city and other localities nationwide.

According to doctor Nguyen Thanh Trung, the Deputy Director of the Da Nang General Hospital cum Chairman of the Association, in addition to their active engagement in the above-mentioned volunteer programmes, the Association’s members have showed their high enthusiasm in many highly-practical activities.

Notably, they have helped patients complete admission, discharge and transfer procedures and other administrative processes, hereby contributing to relieving the overload at public hospitals.

Last, but not least, the Association’s members have also appealed for financial donations from the general public for needy patients, and launched voluntary blood donation campaigns.

“Hopefully, volunteer activities help patients keep strong physically, lifting spirits, and giving hope to conquer their diseases”, said doctor Trung.