A talk exchanging information on disease prevention and control, and healthcare activities between delegations of the Department of Health of Vietnam's Cao Bang province and the Health Commission of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was organised in Cao Bang city on March 5.
A team of American volunteer doctors provided free medical examinations for about 2,570 poor people in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang from July 9 – 19.
In recent years, the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang has provided free health insurance to needy people in remote areas, protecting their right to healthcare.
The northern mountainous province of Cao Bang, which has a more than 330km border with China and seven border gates, has taken measures to prevent the Zika virus from entering Vietnam.
A total of 108 commune health centres in six poor districts in the northern provinces of Bac Kan and Cao Bang have received health care in the past six and a half years.
