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Tet gifts offered to impoverished child patients

President of the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu on January 5 presented 30 gift packages to poor children who are undergoing treatment at Hanoi-based Viet Duc Hospital ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
Tet gifts offered to impoverished child patients ảnh 1President of the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu presents gift to a child patient at Viet Duc Hospital. (Photo: redcross.org.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – President of the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS)Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu on January 5 presented 30 gift packages to poor childrenwho are undergoing treatment at Hanoi-based Viet Duc Hospital ahead of theupcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

The gift packages,each worth 1.2 million VND (51 USD), are donated by Vietnam’s U23 football team.

Thu said that the Viet Duc Hospital is among 13 organisations signing deals withthe VRCS in taking care of poor patients, and this is the first coordinatingactivity between the two sides.

She took the occasion to wish the hospital’s staff a happy new year, and hopedthat the relations with the hospital will further develop, contributing toimproving public healthcare.

For his part, director of the hospital Tran Binh Giang said that the hospitalalways treasures the VRCS’s charitable activities for the needy implementedunder the “Tet for the poor and Agent Orange victims” as they are a greatsource of encouragement to the patients with fatal diseases.

Giang thanked the VRCS for its assistance, and wished that the organisationwill continue its activities to help more ill people.-VNA
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