On December 28, the Health department organized the conference to review the operation of Project “Community-based rehabilitation for victims of dioxin toxic, used in Vietnam War by US army” in Quang Ngai province with the participation of representatives of the provincial departments and agencies and more than 150 staffs and collaborators of the project.
At the forum, the participants were heard report on the implementation situation and results of the project in the province in the period 2014-2015.
Reportedly, the project has been implemented since 2008 in three provinces of Thai Binh, Quang Ngai and Dong Nai. The objective is to improve the quality of the AO/Dioxin victims’ life by helping them integrate into the community with rehabilitation techniques, aid facilities and knowledge on the field.
In Quang Ngai province, the project’s phase 2 is implemented from 2014 to 2016 in Duc Pho, Mo Duc, Tu Nghia and Nghia Hanh districts.
In 2014 and 2015, the provincial project management board has signed responsibility contracts with General Hospitals of Son Tinh, Nghia Hanh, Tu nghia, and Dang Thuy Tram in providing health check-up and rehabilitation for AO victims.
As results, within two years, nearly 190 AO/Dioxin victims and disabled people came to hospitals and benefited from health care and functional rehabilitation services; hundreds of AO victims were donated rehabilitation equipments such as wheelchairs, shaking chairs, hearing-aid and cerebral palsy chairs; etc.
The conference also evaluated the coordination, shared experiences of rehabilitation for AO/Dioxin’s victims and disabled people in the community. Of which, the role of collaborators, the victim’s families and health staffs at commune and district level and the Association of Victims of Agent Orange is to be determined as particularly important factor.
Minh Thien
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