Quang Binh Disease Prevention Centre
Quang Binh Disease Prevention Centre was established in December 2002 by merging specialised units of tuberculosis, ophthalmology, psychiatry, and dermatology. Its main functions are discovering and treating disease and directing preventive programmes. After its establishment, the centre was quick to complete the organisation with specialised and capable staff and working regulations.
Director Pham Thanh Binh said that his centre has increased both medical treatment at the unit and service at grassroots levels. In two years, over 45,000 people were given health checks and 1,830 cases of tuberculosis and 15,000 cases of eye diseases were treated. The national health and psychiatric programme has been carried out in 19 communes with intensive treatment for serious cases. 365,000 people were given health checks for leprosy and 43,247 people for dermatology, 5 cases of leprosy and 4,166 cases of dermatology were treated.
The centre has upgraded facilities and services meeting the demand of the localities, making the best use of the national programmes, financial supports of Vietnamese and foreign organisations such as Association for the Poor, CBM (Germany), Tuberculosis Association (Holland), Sasakawa (Japan), and Unilever.
In 2005, the centre will upgrade its services with more specialised doctors especially in tuberculosis and psychiatry, implementing successfully the programme of “bringing light to the poor blind” and national programmes of tuberculosis, leprosy and psychiatry, ensuring adequate medical treatment for the local people.
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