Vietnam receives eight medical equipment and supplies from partners of RoK

At the ceremony to hand over the ambulances to the Vietnamese side. (Photo: VNA)

The fire police department of North Gyeongsang province coordinated with the International Fire Suppression Alliance (IFSA) of the RoK, and the Korea-Vietnam Cultural Exchange Association (KOVECA) to organize the ceremony.

According to Vietnam News Agency, since the end of August, through KOVECA, the Vietnamese Embassy in the RoK and IFSA have deployed a project to receive used Korean ambulances to donate to Vietnam, which have received support from the Vietnamese Ministries of Public Security and Health, the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, as well as the RoK’s National Fire Agency, and especially North Gyeongsang province’s fire police department.

Speaking at the ceremony, Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Vu Tung said the ambulances donated by RoK partners are useful for local health authorities in Vietnam in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, helping them have better conditions in caring and treating COVID-19 patients.

The ambulances are scheduled to be delivered to Ho Chi Minh City in January 2022.

On the same day, Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Foreign Affairs held a ceremony to receive 80,000 medical masks from the RoK’s Gangwon province./.