In these days leading up to the Tet Festival 2021, everyone is busy fulfilling their year-end tasks, buying traditional food, or decorating their home, in preparation for celebrating the arrival of a lunar new year.

Young medical workers from the Da Nang General Hospital are seen giving free medical checkups to heroic Vietnamese mother Phan Thi Trinh at home

However, during these days, many Youth Union members who are young medical workers from local hospitals have still been active in implementing a large number of deeply meaningful volunteer programmes for community healthcare across Da Nang.

Most recently, young doctors and nurses from the Da Nang General Hospital have provided free home medical check-ups for dozens of heroic Vietnamese mothers citywide. If anyone is found to have health problems during the medical exams, they will be advised to visit hospitals for further treatment.

100-year-old Heroic Vietnamese mother Tran Thi Be, residing in Dong Hoa Village, Hoa Chau Commune, Hoa Vang District, expressed her very happy at free home medical examinations given by young medical workers. She remarked that this meaningful activity showed off the special care and spirit encouragement of young people to her, as well as other elderly people across Da Nang.

Secretary of the Da Nang General Hospital chapter of the municipal Youth Union Phan Duc Tri remarked the giving of such free home healthcare services for the elderly, especially heroic Vietnamese mothers, clearly showed peacetime generations’ deep gratitude to those who made meritorious contributions to the nation's revolutionary cause and those who laid down their lives for the reunification of the country.

In a similar move, in late January, a group of medical workers from the Da Nang Young Physicians' Association gave free medical examinations and treatment to poor people in Cam Le District's Hoa Tho Tay Ward.

Such meaningful healthcare programme is carried out by the Association every year. The programme's beneficiaries include social policy beneficiaries, those who made meritorious contributions to the nation's revolutionary cause, disabled children, poor people living in natural disasters-hit areas, or young people working in industrial parks and export processing zones.

Last year, the Association's members provided free healthcare consultations, and delivered free medicine, to more than 1,000 people in the communes of Hoa Lien and Hoa Ninh in suburban Hoa Vang District, as well as nearly 1,000 workers in the Hoa Khanh Industrial Park.

Also, they instructed over 80 children being cared for at the Hoa Mai Orphan Care Centre, and a Orphan Care Centre under the municipal Red Cross Society about how to properly clean their teeth and wash their hands.

By THANH TINH - Translated by M.D