People-army clinics in border areas are the one of significance as they not only provide health care for local people but also make important contributions to promoting the friendship…
Located along the southwestern part of the borderline with Cambodia are poor communes. Equipment shortages and low quality of the clinic system have limited health care services. Therefore, building and arranging people-army clinics in border areas are very important as they not only help ensure health care for the people but also make important contributions to building the Viet Nam-Cambodia friendship.
When her child got ill, Thay Vun in Pray Veng village, Cambodia, quickly brought the child to the Dinh Ba people-army clinic for treatment. This was not the first time Thay Vun and her family members have come to Viet Nam for medical treatment. Her house is located on the other side of the borderline where there are not medical stations. If Thay Vun wants to have a medical check-up, she has to go as far as tens of kilometres. Meanwhile, it takes her only two kilometres to Viet Nam where she can get whole-hearted medical examinations and treatment.
“Not only my family but also other households in the village come here for medical check-ups when they get ill. We thank Vietnamese doctors because they are very good. We feel secure while undergoing medical examinations here,” Thay Vun said.
Over the past 10 years, doctors at the Dinh Ba clinic in Tan Hong district, the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, have provided medical check-ups and treatment for nearly 50,000 people in Tan Hong border areas and in Cambodia. Most doctors here can communicate with Cambodian residents in the Khmer language. They learnt the language by themselves to better serve check-ups and medicine distributions for the Cambodian people.
Doctor Truong Thanh Liem, who works for the Dinh Ba clinic, said “If we find out serious diseases, we will timely transport patients of both Viet Nam and Cambodia to a higher level of intensive care. Doctors here learn Cambodian to serve medical check-ups better.”
The silent job of doctors at border areas helps step up the national health care programme in border areas, contributing to tightening the friendship and solidarity between the two countries’ peoples./.