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Three sisters in Thanh Hoa Province are in need of financial support for treatment after their parents died.

Hoang Thi Hang (R) and her sister

Lang Thi Sao and Hoang Van Ket had three children together. Kiet’s health deteriorated but because of poverty, he didn’t want to go to the hospital. Kiet was shocked when he was diagnosed with AIDS. He said he didn’t know how he had the disease. He died one month after the diagnosis.

Sao and their youngest daughter, who is only 10 years old, also had AIDS. When Sao died in 2020, the family didn’t have any money so Sao’s cousins, Hoang Van Do, had to borrow money everywhere to hold a funeral for her.

Their eldest daughter, 18-year-old Hoang Thi Hang shoulders everything and looks after her sisters after the deaths of their parents. They are given a monthly allowance of VND450,000 (USD20) for orphaned children but they have to spend VND700,000 a month to buy medicines.

“We are all poor here so we can’t help them much,” Nhat, Hang’s neighbour said. “We often give them vegetables and rice. Hang also works part-time on the fields for some money.”

“Sometimes I felt like I might break down but I still have my sisters,” Hang said. “My youngest sister is struggling against the illness. She often coughs and cries when the weather changes. One of my sisters will learn Judo and I will go to college this year so I’m worried that there will be no one at home to take care of my youngest sister every day.”

Hang said she wanted to go to Hanoi National University of Education but has instead opted for the Primary Education Department at Hong Duc University in Thanh Hoa instead to look after her sister.

Do Viet Phuc, head of Truc Chuan 2 Village, said, “Hang’s family is a difficult case in our area. We also called for help for them but it’s not enough.”

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Sao Vang Rubber Factory in Thanh Xuan District. Photo nhandan.com.vn

However, the relocation process has been delayed for many years, leaving central Hanoi exposed to the downfalls of rapid urbanisation.

Transport infrastructure has not been developed synchronously and planning of public works, green spaces and the school system has been below par.

In March, Hanoi’s People’s Committee approved six urban planning for the four core inner-city districts of Hoan Kiem, Ba Dinh, Hai Ba Trung and Dong Da.

The planning projects on 2,700ha aims to reduce the population to 672,000 people from 1.2 million people in the four districts and improve the social and technical infrastructure of the city.

Hanoians have long been waiting for concrete measures from the municipal government to bring planning to life, especially the relocation of universities, hospitals and polluted production facilities to overcome environmental pollution, traffic jams ad save land for public spaces.

“This was a very good policy. I, like many people, expected the project to be realised soon,” said Vo Thi Hue, a resident in Hai Ba Trung District’s Vinh Tuy Ward.

“The fact that industrial production plants were located in densely populated residential areas in central districts was completely inappropriate, it was necessary to quickly find solutions to bring them out of the inner city,” said Hue.

In Vinh Tuy Ward, Dong Xuan Knitting Company still maintains some production units which cause smoke and dust pollution for residential areas nearby.

Local people have petitioned authorities many times but the company was not relocated even after it built a new factory in Hung Yen Province and put it into operation.

Vu Ngoc Quy, a resident in Dong Da District’s Kim Lien Ward, said to reduce traffic pressure in the four central districts with a very large population, moving universities and hospitals to the outskirts is a sound policy.

A policy to relocate the headquarters of ministries, branches and central agencies out of Hanoi’s inner city was approved in a Government resolution in 2008.

In January 2015, then-Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung issued Decision No 130/QD-TTg on measures, the relocation schedule and the use of land in central districts after the relocation of industrial production facilities, hospitals and higher education and vocational training establishments.

However, out of nine ministries, branches and central agencies that have completed construction investment and moved to work at new headquarters, only one handed over its old headquarters.

As for universities and colleges, there are 26 establishments in the four central districts, but so far, only the University of Community Health in Ba Dinh District has relocated.

As for polluting establishments, in 2016, the Capital Law determined the roadmap for relocating 117 establishments in 12 districts out of the inner city by 2020.

However, the relocation work has been virtually stagnant.

A representative of the Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and Environment said the department has been reviewing and adjusting facilities that have to be relocated after the approval of the six residential planning projects.

Recently, the Ministry of Construction acknowledged relocation was very necessary. However, the organisation and implementation of relocation were still slow.

According to the ministry, there were many reasons leading to this situation such as changes in guidelines, policies and laws affecting the progress of planning and relocation projects.

The implementation process encountered many difficulties in mobilising resources and arranging capital while relocation requires huge budgets.

In addition, the initiative, co-ordination and implementation work from agencies was not sufficient.

Dr Dao Ngoc Nghiem, vice president of Vietnam Urban Development Planning Association, said one of the reasons ministries and branches were slow to move to the suburban areas and hand over the land to Hanoi authorities was because they were entangled in the Land Law.

“Because this law regulates that headquarters of ministries, branches, industrial establishments, universities, etc., are allocated land for a definite time and within the allocated time limit, they have full rights to use and exploit the land,” said Nghiem.

“Therefore, many units have kept the old headquarters despite being allocated land to build new ones because they are still within the time limit for land allocation,” he said.

“Thus, Hanoi needed a specific mechanism to revoke the land soon after the units relocate. At that time, the urban areas would have more favourable factors to solve problems such as population expansion and additional land for infrastructure development,” he said.

To hasten the relocation of industrial production facilities, the Hanoi People’s Committee has established a steering committee for relocation, built a list of works that need to be relocated and proposed criteria and roadmaps for relocation in 12 inner-city districts, according to the Ministry of Construction.

For the relocation of medical, education and training facilities, the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education are implementing separate planning programmes on their relocation.

According to Nguyen Duc Hung, vice director of Hanoi Planning and Construction Institute, one of the most important goals of the zoning plan of the historic inner city districts was to relocate the headquarters of ministries, branches and universities.

“At that time, it would create a land fund of about 176ha to build public works and green spaces that is now very lacking, and moving about 100,000 people out of the areas,” Hung said.

“However, the actual implementation is not simple. Along with Hanoi’s responsibility, the drastic participation of all levels, branches, the whole political system is needed with high determination to soon achieve the goals,” he added.

Source: Vietnam News

Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong Son affirmed that HCMC is one of the regions in the top list of vaccine distribution. In the upcoming 800,000-dose vaccine batch, the city will focus on subjects mentioned in Resolution No.21 by the Government and workers in its industrial parks.

Prof. Dr. Phan Trong Lan – Head of HCMC Pasteur Institute – shared that the city is able to perform 200,000 injections per day, and thus can finish delivering this Covid-19 vaccine batch to prioritized people in about one week.

The Health Deputy Minister reported that until now, HCMC has had over 1,000 Covid-19 cases and must prepare sufficient medical facilities for the scenario of 5,000 cases, along with locations to accommodate a huge number of isolated F1.

The good news is dangerous Covid-19 hot spots in the city like Phuc Hung religious mission, Ehome 3 apartment block, Vinh Loc Industrial Park, and a site in Hoc Mon District are basically under control now, with a significant decrease of new cases.

The city is now trying its best to track possible patients and their close contacts in the community.

“As the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 has a much faster spreading speed, the medical staff in HCMC must accelerate its testing procedure, using quick-test kits, single and pooled sample testing to detect an F0 as soon as possible for quicker tracking of their close contacts,” instructed Deputy Minister Son.

He added that the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control has discussed the method of quarantining F1 people at either their manufacturing plants or their places of residence if centralized isolation areas are overloaded, as long as these locations can meet medical requirements for a standard isolation place.

Therefore, the Health Ministry is preparing a draft of criteria for F1, especially people under 15 years old, staying isolated at residence places or manufacturing plants. This model is going to be piloted in HCMC.

By Thanh Son – Translated by Vien Hong