241 poor children received free heart surgery

06:01, 13/01/2008

(ĐN)- According to information from the Provincial Committee for Population, Family and Children, in 2007, the province in cooperation with relevant agencies provided free surgery, checks-up and medicines to more than 9,000 poor children.

(ĐN)- According to information from the Provincial Committee for Population, Family and Children, in 2007, the province in cooperation with relevant agencies provided free surgery, checks-up and medicines to more than 9,000 poor children.

 

Particularly, the province offered free eye surgeries for 147 children, provided free surgery to 55 harelip and cleft palate children, etc.

 

Besides, until now,  241 children in Dong Nai have received free heart surgery under the program entitled “For saving the lives of 300 children” launched by Dong Nai Child Sponsor Fund.

 

Reported by U.P