Group helps save children’s hearts
Friday, 30/03/2018 17:55 (GMT+7)
Tens of thousands of children have been provided with heart check-ups, and some 4,000 with serious congenital heart disease have received operations over the past 10 years during the implementation of the program “Operation Healthy Heart” run by the Vietnam Military-run Industry and Telecommunications Group (Viettel) in collaboration with Vietnam Television, some agencies and hospitals.
The program targets to give heart check-ups to some 30,000 children nationwide and successful surgeries to an additional 3,000 by 2020. Doctors joining the program are volunteers and work free.
In a recent heart check-up in Dak Mil district in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, some 2,700 children, including many ethnic minority children, were provided with heart check-ups. Some were advised to get surgeries.
Parents take children to the program for heart check-ups.
An 8-month old child provided with a heart check-up
Ultrasound is used for heart check-ups.
Children are also provided with milk.
BTA (Photos: PANO)
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