Representative hailed for contributions to Vietnam-WHO ties
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on April 27 hosted a reception for Dr Kidong Park, the outgoing Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Vietnam, during which he spoke highly of Park’s contributions to the growth in partnership between Vietnam and WHO.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam (R) receives Dr Kidong Park, Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Vietnam (Source: baochinhphu.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on April 27hosted a reception for Dr Kidong Park, the outgoing Representative of the WorldHealth Organisation (WHO) in Vietnam, during which he spoke highlyof Park’s contributions to the growth in partnership between Vietnam and WHO.
Sharing his memorable time in Vietnam when the country struggled against the COVID-19 pandemic, Park highly valued Vietnam’s efforts to learn and applyinternational experience and roll out creative prevention and controlmeasures.
The Vietnamese Government has coped with COVID-19 in atimely, strong and drastic manner through the approach to the entire societywith an efficient system of emergency public health supervision and response and highly qualified medical force, he said, highlighting the risingpublic awareness in Vietnam in actively implementing prevention and controlmeasures.
Particularly, the country’s success in the super-fastvaccination campaign has turned Vietnam into one of the countries with highestvaccination coverage in the work, he noted.
For his part, Dam lauded the support from WHO and Park inparticular to Vietnam in the pandemic fight as well as in all medical areasover the past more than 40 years.
The Deputy PM expressed his hope that in his new position, Dr.Park will continue to make positive contributions to the cooperation between theWHO and Vietnam in the medical area, thus helping Vietnam complete the goal of modernisingand perfecting the country’s healthcare system towards fair, effective,developed orientations, meeting the rising and more diverse demands of peoplein protecting, caring and improving health, reducing the rates of morbidity andmortality, lengthening life expectancy, improving quality of life, andachieving and overfulfilling the targets set out in the strategy of caring andprotecting people's health in the 2020 – 2030 period./.
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Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam (R) receives Dr Kidong Park, Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Vietnam (Source: baochinhphu.vn) 
