The southern province of Dong Nai has received a project on
providing reproductive health care for at least 16,000 women workers in
Dong Nai and the neighbouring province of Binh Duong until 2015.
The European Union will fund 80 percent of the
project’s total budget of more than 1.2 million EUR, which was signed on
April 15 between Marie Stopes International Organisation in Vietnam,
the Community Reproductive Health Centre and the health department of
Dong Nai.
The project will help improve the capacity
of 40 public and private health care establishments in order to create a
network providing quality services relating to reproductive health and
birth-control, at acceptable expenses for workers and the local
population in the two provinces.
After having been
tested in Dong Nai and Binh Duong province, the model will be applied at
other businesses through the nation.
Educational
activities will also be carried out to increase workers’ awareness of
reproductive health and birth-control through peer education networks at
factories.
There will be a hotline service to help
worker understand the importance and the availability of the
reproductive health care services in the province.-VNA