Prime Minister encourages and celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival with child patients at the Institute of Hematology

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits and presents gifts to pediatric patients being treated at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival 2023 - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Accompanying the Prime Minister were Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan, leaders of ministries, branches and Hanoi city.

"Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional holiday of the nation, a festival of reunion, sharing, and spreading love. Mid-Autumn Festival is a children's festival, an occasion that children and teenagers look forward to, to gather with grandparents, parents, family, and friends, watch the moon, chat, eat moon cakes, and enjoy Mid-Autumn Festival... Every child has the right to enjoy Mid-Autumn Festival in their own way," Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh was moved when visiting, meeting, and celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival with the children.

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, with the warmest sentiments, deepest sympathy and sharing, the Prime Minister cordially sends to the doctors and staff of the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, parents and especially all the sick children his warmest regards and best wishes on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival 2023; wishing the children a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, always love life, look to the future, persevere in treatment to recover soon and return to their families and classes.

The Prime Minister hopes that teenagers and children "will always be confident and optimistic in treating their illnesses, trying to overcome difficulties and adversities, and moving towards a bright future" - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

According to the Prime Minister, for each person and the whole society, health is the most valuable asset. Especially for nearly 23 million children and students, the work of protecting, caring for and improving their health is even more important because they are the future generation of the country. The work of protecting and caring for children's health is the responsibility not only of the family but also of the community, of the whole society and the entire political system.

The Prime Minister affirmed that the Party and State always pay special attention to children's work, creating the best possible conditions and building a safe and healthy living environment for children to develop comprehensively; considering this a strategic and long-term issue to improve the quality of the country's human resources.

Prime Minister presents Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to special patients - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Over the past years, the work of caring for and protecting children has achieved important results. In particular, the Prime Minister was delighted and moved to see that the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, with its leading laboratory system and a team of dedicated and experienced experts, officers and staff, has become the largest facility for treating blood diseases and blood-forming organs in the country, bringing confidence and hope to many patients, especially the 320 adolescents and children being treated here.

The Prime Minister highly appreciated and warmly commended the efforts of the Institute's doctors and medical staff to overcome difficulties and challenges and the positive results they have achieved. "The Institute's headquarters has truly become a second home; the doctors and medical staff are like fathers and mothers to the children!", the Prime Minister shared.

In the coming time, the Prime Minister hopes and wishes the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion to continue to promote the good tradition of nearly 40 years and the positive results achieved, constantly "Strive for the health of Vietnamese blood", strive to overcome difficulties and challenges, excellently complete the important assigned tasks; give the best care and attention, wholeheartedly and wholeheartedly to the patients being treated, especially the teenagers and children, always take care of them like their own children, so that they are physically healthy and mentally pure.

The Prime Minister wished the children a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, always love life, look forward to the future, persevere in treatment to recover soon and return to their families and classes - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

"I also hope that teenagers and children will always be confident and optimistic in treating their illnesses, trying to overcome difficulties and adversities, and moving towards a bright future. The Party, the State, doctors, families and society will always be there to love, share, protect, care for and help them!", the Prime Minister said.

Sharing with the children and their relatives about the difficulties in inpatient treatment at the Institute when the number of patients is large but the number of beds is small, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Health to coordinate with relevant agencies and hospitals to research and calculate the expansion of the inpatient treatment area so that doctors and families can have better conditions to care for and treat the children, helping them to better fight and overcome their illnesses.

On this occasion, the Prime Minister highly appreciated, sincerely thanked and hoped that organizations, individuals and philanthropists at home and abroad would continue to pay attention, support and provide practical assistance to the care and treatment of patients at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, especially for teenagers and children.

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