The official development assistance (ODA) contract was signed on Wednesday by Ikuo Mizuki, the Consul-General of Japan in HCMC, and Phan Thi Hanh, president of Vietnamese Association of Midwives (VAM) – the organization that will receive the funds.
The project will purchase medical equipment to provide extensive reproductive health services to poor mothers in the southeastern province.
The medical equipment will be used at the clinic run by VAM set up at the Ba Ria Town Medical Center, and also by mobile teams that will be organized to provide cervical cancer detection as well as maternal and child care in remote areas of the province.
VAM is a professional organization representing all midwives in the country that aims to contribute to the protection and improvement of public health in general and reproductive health in particular, especially that of mothers.
Apart from the specific objective of helping women in remote areas of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, the project will also help forge closer friendship and cooperation between Japan and Vietnam, Mizuki said at the signing ceremony.
The project comes under the “Grant Assistance for Grassroots and Human Security Program” funded by the Japanese government since 1995 and granted through the Consulate General in HCMC.
More than 90 projects worth more than $6 million have been carried out under this program in southern cities and provinces.
Reported by Giang An |
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