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HEALTH CARE
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We aim to make our health care programmes and activities as efficient as possible. They are mostly concentrated on the needs of the population of northern and central Vietnam.
a. For poor patients:
- We operate five clinics: in Danang city, Phu Thuong (Danang), Kontum, A Yunpa (Gia Lai) and Phu Tai (Qui Nhon). Together the clinics treat over 125 patients a day. Since 1987 they have played an important role in providing general treatment, free consultation and medical care.
- Daily provision of nourishing soup for 1000 patients in five other hospitals: the Vietnam-Cuba hospital in Hanoi (four nuns), the TB hospital in Hue (three nuns), the TB hospital in Hoi An (three nuns), Danang hospital (one nun), and the children’s hospital in Tuy Hoa (Phu Yen province) (five nuns).
- Two groups of volunteers (including more than a dozen volunteer doctors who will join us) provide monthly visits to families living in remote mountainous villages: free treatment, transport of difficult cases to the hospital in town and payment of medical expenses and hospitalisation costs.
- Assistance and collaboration with groups of foreign medical volunteers for the poorest and most remote villages.
. . b. For leprosy sufferers:
b.1 Hue:
- One nun provides home visits for 60 leprous families.
b.2 Kontum:
- Nuns from the St Paul of Chartres Convent in Danang support the national health programme to fight against leprosy, taking charge of 600 patients in 10 mountainous villages in the Dak Ha and Dak To districts or in the forest.
Activities:
- Locating those individuals affected by leprosy who live in isolated regions, and accompanying them to a specialist hospital for treatment.
- Providing medical care for recovered disabled persons.
- Providing food (10 kg of rice and basic food to every patient for €4) to assist recovery, in particular for those still being treated as they need to be strong to fight illness.
- Education and training of children for the future of the whole community.
- Provision of drinking water, construction of aqueducts and tanks.
- Provision of means for producing household income for 100 recovered patients who can work in agriculture, cow breeding, fisheries and scattered orchards. A great number of beneficiaries have had the opportunity to improve their life quality and opportunities thanks to micro-projects.
Contact person: Marguerite Vo Thi Huong and Sister Moleste Le Thi Vi Address: 6 Tran Phu, Kontum, Vietnam Tel: 8460 848599 e-mail: lethivi@pmail.vnn.vn
b.3 Gia Lai:
The Community of Sisters of St Paul of Chartres in A Yunpa, Gia Lai is small but very active in the administration of the local hospital and in home care.
Twelve nuns offer a wide range of services and have been running a leprosy treatment project since 1960.
Four nuns provide help and daily care for 217 patients in hospital or at home. They assist leprosy sufferers who are dispersed or hidden in the countryside or forest, living in isolated places and excluded from society. It is often difficult to find them in order to provide care and offer home visits.
Contact person: Sister Goretti Nguyen Thi Khuyen Address: P.O. Box 01 A Yunpa, Gia Lai, Vietnam Tel: 8459 852113 e-mail: spcphubon@yahoo.ca
b.4. Pleiku :
Twenty-two nuns provide help and daily care to 718 patients in 69 villages.
Activities:
- Locating leprosy sufferers living in remote regions and transferring them to the specialist hospital in Qui Hoa for treatment.
- Provision of medical care for 180 patients.
- Provision of medicines.
Contact person: Sister Thérésita Lê Thị Liên Address: 44 Lê Thánh Tôn, Pleiku, Vietnam Tel: 8459 824232 e-mail: spcpku@dng.vnn.vn
+ Periodic visits to patients in their mental hospitals. + Assisting and collaborating with foreign voluntary medical groups to very poor and distant villages.
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c. For people with HIV and AIDS:
- Two nuns have volunteered to take care of 35 HIV and AIDS patients in the governmental hospital in Hue.
- One nun visits 40 AIDS and HIV patients in the AIDS Centre in Phu Tai (Binh Dinh province) on a regular basis.
- Six nuns regularly visit AIDS and HIV patients at home and in the AIDS Centre in Qui Nhon (Binh Dinh province).
d. For mental patients:
Periodic visits to mental patients in hospital in the regions of Phuoc Tuong and Thanh Binh (Danang).
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