Japan Helps to Improve Healthcare in Remote Areas

Japan has committed to dole out more than 151,600 USD to improve healthcare services in Mekong Delta An Giang and Ca Mau provinces.

An agreement to this effect was clinched between Ikuo Mizuki, Japanese Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City and representatives from the two provinces on June 21. Under the agreement, Japan will provide 15 kinds of medical equipment, worth more than 85,000 USD, to the Nam Can hospital in southernmost Ca Mau province, including electrocardiograp-3 channels, anesthesia machine with ventilator, ophthalmology instrument sets, and semi-automatic bio-chemistry analyser. The aid will be beneficial to almost 73,000 local people. The second aid package will be devoted to the upgrading of a clinic in Tan Chau district, An Giang province, in a move to better health care services for more than 54,000 local residents. In 2006, the Japanese government donated more than 2.4 million USD to 28 sub-projects in Viet Nam through its non-refundable aid programme. The Japanese Consul General plans to adopt more projects under this programme for the needy in disadvantaged areas like the Mekong Delta and the Central Highlands.