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Children play a traditional game in Thanh An Commune, Can Gio District in HCM City. The city has earmarked $2.7 million to improve protection of city children. — VNA/VNS Photo The Anh |
Phan Thanh Minh, head of the labour department's child protection and care office, said at a workshop that the programme would target health and nutrition, education, entertainment, water and living environment for children as well as protecting them from violence and all forms of abuse.
The city aims to have 97.5 per cent of children under one year old getting all the required vaccines and 98.7 per cent of children aged between six and 36 months old get their Vitamin A doses each year.
Another target is to have the average height of children under five years of age increase by at least 1.5cm and the rate of obesity among this age group kept to under 15 per cent.
The rate of bronchial infection among children aged between eight and 12 will be brought down to 1.5 per cent.
Infant mortality for one-year-olds will be brought down to one per 1,000 and that of children under five years old to 1.67 per 1,000.
Minh said that to implement these targets, the city would open health clinics in all wards, communes and towns and staff them with qualified health personnel to ensure the wellbeing of mothers and children.
He said the city would also strengthen public awareness campaigns on health and nutrition.
The city would create favourable conditions for all children aged six to enter first grade, and all high-school-age students would get admission to schools by 2020.
In order to protect the children, the city would try to reduce the number of street children, those working in harmful and dangerous environments, and those subjected to different kinds of abuse.
All children with the disabilities would be placed on welfare and given needed assistance, Minh said.
Efforts would be made to build enough cultural houses for children so that they would not lack healthy entertainment options, at least in 90 per cent of the city's wards, communes and towns as required by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism for children. — VNS
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