The campaign will last till July 15 with several contents such as parading to communicate about the healthcare activities for the older people; diversifying the models of cultural and sport clubs so that the older have places to share, exchange and improve the cultural and spiritual life.

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Besides, it encourages to develop the model to care for the elderly health at the community and family as well as the elder nursing centres.

The communication campaign aims at communicating the households to keep the sub-replacement fertility to ensure suitable population scale to the provincial socio-economic growth and reduce the current ageing population, which helps enhance the material and spiritual life to the older.

The province is now home to 270,000 older people, accounting for 15 percent of the total population. The rate of the elderly tends to go up year on year. 70 percent of the elderly living in the rural, mountainous and remote areas do not have social allowance and pension.

Bac Giang sets up electronic health records to ensure urgency and accuracy

(BGO) - Realizing the province’s plan, at this time, localities in Bac Giang province are urgently setting up electronic health records of the local residents. This is an important task to ensure that all people are managed, monitored and provided with primary health care at medical facilities.

Health insurance - a lifebuoy for patients

The public health insurance fund paid more than half a million US dollars for treatment of just a single patient over three years.

Health sector to increase work on vaccinations

Disease prevention and control is the main duty of the health sector this year, thus the sector will actively conduct preventive measures and provide vaccinations in high-risk areas.

Swedish organisation-funded project promotes reproductive health care

A workshop to start a project on protecting rights of children from ethnic minority groups to access reproductive health care services and sex education was held in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai on June 11. 

Health Ministry launches National Micronutrient Day 2019

The Ministry of Health launched the National Micronutrient Day 2019 in the central province of Thanh Hoa on May 28 with an aim to promote the physical and mental health development of children, as well as their life quality.

Minh Minh