SOCIETY IN BRIEF 17/2

Published: 16/02/2011 05:00

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Vietnam, Japan
cooperate in cancer treatment

Lam Dong General Hospital and Toho Hospital of
Sanshikai medical group, Japan, will cooperate in cancer treatment, according to
a cooperative agreement signed on February 14.

Under the agreement, Toho hospital
will supply Lam Dong hospital with medical equipment, diagnostic methods and
cancer treatments as well as exchange of patients if required. In return, Lam
Dong hospital will facilitate Toho hospital in procedures to receive and cure
patients.
In addition, both hospitals will exchange staff to share experiences in cancer
treatment and prevention.
In the second quarter of 2011, Sanshikai will also finance three doctors
from Lam Dong hospital to study in Japan and help cure diabetics.


Bank
rewards nail scam whistleblowers


Eximbank
in the southern province of Binh Duong on Monday offered accident insurance
valued at VND100 billion (US$47,619) per year to ten “knights” who caught people
spreading nails on the roads of Phu Hoa Ward.

The
“knights” of a crime prevention club in Thu Dau Mot District safeguard the
streets and have helped capture about 90 criminals over the past two years.
Eximbank also rewarded VND50 million (US$2.380) in cash to each person.


Dak
Nong enjoys clean water supply



Locals wash with clean
water in Cu Gut District in the central province of Dak Nong.

(Photo: VNS)

The young boy was enjoying the clean
water coming out of a tap in Dak Nong Province’s Dang K’lieng Village.

Watching
his son frolic, Dieu N’ky smiled and said this year in the dry season his family
and neighbours do not have to worry about a water shortage following the
installation of a new supply system in Quang Tin Commune.

“The
health of everyone in my family has become better,” he said, explaining his son
no longer felt itchy and slept better at night.

In the
past they had to fetch water from a river or stream five kilometres from the
village, and they were not even clean, he said.

At the
end of last year the province Center for Rural Water Supply and Environmental
Sanitation built a pumping station that supplies 200cu.m of water daily at a
cost of VND4 billion (US$191,400).

Forty
out of the village’s 52 families now got water from this, Pham Van Hai, the
chief of the local People’s Committee Secretariat, said.

The
remaining families would get water this year, he said.

In Dak
Ru Commune too 128 out of 150 families have been getting clean water since the
centre installed a supply system at a cost of VND4 billion at the beginning of
last year.

Local
authorities have petitioned the province administration to double the supply
capacity.

This is
a story that has been repeated in many communes in the province which has spent
nearly VND150 billion ($7.2 million) to ensure 75 per cent of all residents have
access to clean water, according to the People’s Committee.



Rubella, dengue fever on rise


Outbreaks of rubella and viral fever have been reported in Da Nang and Quang Nam
Province in the last week.

Dr Pham
Ngoc Ham, head of Da Nang Hospital’s tropical diseases ward, said rubella is
occurring earlier than normal this year.

On
Monday 24 children were treated at the hospital for the disease taking the total
number of affected children in the previous few days to 30, he said.

The
hospital has isolated the patients to avoid further transmission.

It has
also admitted 15 patients with viral fever and nine others with serious dengue
fever.

The main
reason or the outbreaks was the abnormal weather, Ham added.

In Quang
Nam Province, the General Hospital treated 90 people with rubella and viral
fever in the last one week.

Dr
Nguyen Duc Hung Son, head of the Nong Son District health clinic, said more than
1,000 people had contracted viral fever since the beginning of this year.

In
mountainous communes, including Que Lam, nearly half the families had one or
more members coming down with the disease, he said.

Dang
Xuan Vinh, deputy head of the Phuoc Son District health clinic, said viral fever
had been reported for the two months, with 251 people hospitalised so far.



Enormous fish on display in restaurant


A 24
kilogramme Hemibagrus elongatus fish, accepted as the largest specimen ever
found locally, is on display at the Son Thuy restaurant in HCM City’s District
3.
The fish is one metre long. It has two 60 centimetre beards, and a blazing red
tail and fin.

Each
kilogram of the fish’s meat is valued at VND500,000 (US$23.8).
This species of fish lives mainly in the Srepok River in Dak Lak Province and
other rivers in Viet Nam’s Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands).



Strong winds isolate island district again


Ly Son
Island District, 18 nautical miles off the coast of Quang Ngai, was isolated
from the mainland on Monday due to strong winds which raised the sea level by up
to seven metres.

To
minimise possible losses, all fishing, cargo and passenger vessels have been
forbidden from leaving Sa Ky Port.


Transportation activities will return to normal when the sea is calm in the next
two or three days, announced local authorities.

The
island was isolated due to weather twice last month.

Young Vietnamese politicians and reporters visit
Japan

A delegation of young Vietnamese politicians and
reporters led by Vo Van Thuong, First Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist
Youth Union Central Committee began an official visit to Tokyo, Japan on
February 16.

The visit is part of activities
under the East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youth Programme (JENESYS)
which will be held from February 16-23.

The delegation will visit relevant
ministries and agencies, ancient villages, factories, television stations and
editorial offices in Tokyo. They will also attend cultural exchanges with young
Japanese.

JENESYES is a cooperative exchange
programme between the Government of Japan and East Asia nations, aiming to lay a
firm foundation for stronger solidarity in Asia.

Japan helps Vietnam improve plant quality

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)
will work with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to implement a
four-year project to raise the output and quality of plants.

The project, starting from this
year, has a total investment capital of US$3.46 million, with US$3.31 million in
non-refundable aid coming from the Japanese side.

According to the MARD, the project
focuses on improving management capacity in the cultivation sector, in such
areas as plant variety protection and the production of safe plants in a bid to
meet Vietnam’s commitments to related international treaties. It is designed to
set up a plant variety protection system to meet the requirements of integration
and fulfill tasks set for members of the International Union for the Protection
of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) in 2016.

It also aim to improve the
management system of plant production from the central to grassroots levels,
while raising public awareness of cooking safety.

First priority will be given to the
assessment of application form registration for plant variety protection and
measures to test the distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of plants
which are compatible with international standards and introduced to the National
Centre for Plant and Fertilizer Testing as well as other testing centres.

Under the project, technicians in
charge of guiding farmers to produce safe plants in cities and provinces,
including Quang Ninh, Hung Yen, Ha Nam, Hai Phong, Thai Binh and Hoa Binh, will
be chosen for capacity improvement.



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