First Vietnam medical achievement award calls 16 winners
The Voice of Ho Chi Minh City (VOH), the local official radio broadcasting station, together with the municipal Health Department hosted the first Vietnam medical achievement award ceremony on February 26 to honour 16 contributions to the community’s wellbeing in 2020 from across the nation.
HCM City(VNA) – The Voice of Ho Chi Minh City (VOH), the local official radiobroadcasting station, together with the municipal Health Department hosted the firstVietnam medical achievement award ceremony on February 26 to honour 16 contributionsto the community’s wellbeing in 2020 from across the nation.
The contributions were voted by the public from 22nominations selected by the award’s council of professionals. Three months after itslaunch, the award received more than 60 nominations from medical facilitiesnationwide.
Among the winners were the work of doctors at the Cu Chi COVID-19 treatment hospital – the first of its kind in Vietnam, and medical staff atthe HCM City Centre for Diseases Control. Since the pandemic begin in thecountry, hundreds of medical workers in Ho Chi Minh City have taken turns to beat the hospital, while preventive medicine workers at the centre have workedday and night on contact-tracing and testing sample collection.
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VOH Director Le Cong Dong said the award is now an annual eventin celebration of Vietnamese Doctors' Day (February 27).
Duong Anh Duc, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’sCommittee, hoped the award will encourage more contributions to the health ofthe community to be made in the future./.
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At the event (Photo: VNA) 
