US Foundation Funds Hospital Expansion

United States non-governmental organisation, East-Meets-West, has decided to grant 3.5 million USD to Da Nang hospital in order to open up two new departments.

The aid package, to be used to establish the Cancer and Tumours Department and the Tropical Medicine Department, was approved by Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem, on June 27, who ordered Da Nang's municipal administration to oversee the smooth implementation of the programme. This deal is one of ten aid projects that the East-Meet-West Foundation has committed to Da Nang city for the 2006 fiscal year. The majority of the foundation's schemes revolve around child health, education and the disadvantaged.