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Healthcare for the disadvantaged The partnership helps those that live far from high-level hospitals At the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Nghia Lo General Hospital, doctors are consistently providing active care for sick newborns, especially babies born prematurely to young mothers, the majority of whom are from ethnic minority groups. As a common practice, ethnic minority women still have to carry out heavy farming work whilst receiving inadequate nutrition during their pregnancy. The consequence is that many infants are prematurely born. As Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai from the NICU explained, “Ethnic minority groups live in remote villages in mountainous areas which are hard to reach. It takes them hours to get to the NICU. As a result, many infants with infections come to our unit only in severe condition.”

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