Viet Nam News image: http://vietnamnews.vn//Images/arrow-breakcrump.png SocietyVolunteers provide health care for homelessUpdate: August, 09/2016 - 09:00image: http://vietnamnews.vn//images/icon/icon_fb.gifShare facebookimage: http://vietnamnews.vn//images/icon/icon_tw.gifChia sẻ bài viết lên Twitterimage: http://vietnamnews.vn//images/icon/icon_google.gifShare google+|image: http://vietnamnews.vn//images/icon/icon_print.gifimage: http://vietnamnews.vn//images/icon/icon_letter.gifimage: http://image.vietnamnews.vn//uploadvnnews/Article/2016/8/8/P557562032PM.jpgA medical volunteer helps Nguyễn Thị Thu, a homeless person in Hà Nội. - VNS Photo Ngọc LongViet Nam NewsBy Khánh LinhIt’s 11pm on Saturday night. When most of the houses have turned off their lights and darkness covers the city, Lê Hà Phương, a second-year student at Hà Nội College of Medicine wears her first aid bag filled with medical supplies and free medicine and gets ready to visit special patients.These patients are elderly homeless people, who can be found taking shelter in dark corners of the streets throughout the night. Phương, together with dozens of volunteers from Ấm (Warmth) Volunteering Club, has been providing medical check-ups and supplies for the homeless free of charge since early January.From 11pm every Saturday night, these young people have prepared food, blankets, and clothing. Sticky rice, bottles of water, packs of instant noodles and blankets are divided into different bags and are delivered to homeless people in the city.
Phương and two other medical volunteers will talk to the homeless people, especially the elderly, about their health, and give medical aid and advice right there and then.
The most common ailments among elderly homeless people are respiratory disease, high-blood pressure, diabetes and bone-related diseases. For these cases, the volunteers give medical advice on what should be done and what should be avoided, and medicine when needed. For the worst cases, the patients will be taken to hospital for necessary tests and treatment.
As she began to work on healing people, she realised there were people with bad wounds, unhealed ulcers and even undiagnosed cancers.
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