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In 1999, ACWP started the Mobile Healthcare Program (MHP) which administers basic medical assistance to impoverished children and adults in rural areas, such as Binh Thanh, Cong Quan 1, Duong Hoa, Hai Duong, Huong Toan, Hong Tien, Huong Binh, Phong Thu and Quan An in Central Region of Vietnam. These poor villages, small cities, or communities lack healthcare infrastructures and are often economically and medically underdeveloped. Since the majority of people are not financially stable, they have limited or no access to basic medical care. Consequently, their children face greater risk for malnourishment, dengue fever, parasitic diseases, and other preventable epidemics caused by the adverse climate, natural disasters, poverty, and improper hygiene.
SolutionACWP’s mission is to help the disadvantaged and forgotten children to become self-sufficient; however, their long term health is always a challenge. As with any child, how does a child do best in learning? By having the basic nutrition and food, the child will not be distracted with sickness and hunger but only focus in learning. As for the case of homeless and disadvantaged children in Vietnam, ACWP’s mission is to provide the basic healthcare services so that these disadvantaged children can continue to thrive and look forward to a brighter future.
MHP is a joint program with local volunteer doctors, nurses, and medical students from Hue Medical University in the Central Region of Viet Nam. These medical professionals and public health employees from the local region have collaborated their resources and expertise to prepare, care, and assist in the overflow and non-ending lines of patients who have come from long distances to receive the free medical evaluation. A medical service trip is usually organized four to twelve times a year based on available sponsorships. Want to Help? Click Here
During the free clinical treatment, doctors can also be engaged to help further research and development by implementing a study of the local diseases and its conditions. By participating on the medical team, a mutual exchange of information between the poor community (Patient) and the Researcher (Doctors from Hue Medical University) can be achieved. Not only does the medical staff gains greater trust from the disadvantaged communities, but the children and their family receive free basic healthcare, medicine, preventive measures in transmittable diseases, health care awareness, and resource awareness. During these trips, the MHP team offers preventive medical care, medicines, and nutritional supplements (milk powder and vitamins).
FactsSince 1999, as Chancellor of Research and Foreign Medicine Department of Hue Medical Center, Hue, Central Vietnam, Dr. Tran Dinh Hau, has lead the ACWP’s MHP team in its 55 trips, and on a rotational basis, within seven years, helped in the delivery of top medical care services to 18,500 low income and disadvantaged children, and the attending students at 7 ACWP’s built schools, and 13,200 adults in 9 different rural communities in the Central Region Vietnam. Want to Help? Click Here In addition, during these mobile medical out-reach trips, the MHP team will evaluate and refer children with special needs to any applicable ACWP’s programs for short or long term assistance such as Cattle Raising (CRP), Corrective Surgery (CSP), or Education Sponsorship (ESP). Did You Know...- In seven years since its inception, ACWP Mobile Healthcare Program has spent $44,000 and provided basic medical services including preventive medical care, medicines, and nutritional supplements (milk powder and vitamins) to a total of 31,700 low income and disadvantaged children and adults in the rural areas of the Cental Vietnam for an average of less than $1.50 USD per person.
- The average cost is $800 USD for each MHP trip* inclusive of transportation, medicine, nutritional supplements, and administration.
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*Cost are provided as estimates; varies per City, year of construction, and local ordinances.
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