The HCMC Department of Health has just submitted a proposal to the city government seeking approval to build a new pediatric hospital with an aim to ease the overloading situation at the city’s current children hospitals.
The Pediatrics Hospital in the central province of Thanh Hoa began performing operations on 30 children with limb deformities on Oct. 14, with help from the Swiss non-governmental organisation Children Action.
Accor, a hospitality company, announced it will be holding its first golf tournament, “Swing for Smiles”, on October 11, 2008 in Da Lat city, Lam Dong province, to raise funds for Operation Smile Vietnam.
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) on June 24 launched a programme to provide education, health care, counseling and food for hundreds of thousands of street children.
Doctors on the USNS Mercy hospital ship of the US will perform surgery for 88 children with cleft lips and cleft palates in central Khanh Hoa province and its neighbouring localities.
More than 120 children with cleft lips and cleft palates will receive free operations thanks to a six-day charity programme organised by Operation Smile Vietnam (OSV) which began on June 6.
Operation Smile has helped local dentists to provide free operations for 60 children with harelips and cleft palates from central Thanh Hoa province on May 12.
