Resettlement areas plan approved

HCM CITY — The HCM City People's Committee has approved a plan to develop two resettlement areas for residents who are living in Binh Khanh and An Thoi Dong communes in Can Gio District, two areas that are at risk of landslides.

Under the detailed plan, residents living in those communes will be moved to Co Dau and Ca Chay resettlement areas in Binh Khanh and An Thoi Dong communes, respectively.

The city People's Committee has urged Can Gio District People's Committee to submit a plan to develop infrastructure projects in the Co Dau and Ca Chay resettlement areas according to the standards set by the Government for "new rural areas".

In addition, the Can Gio District People's Committee has been asked to complete and submit the audited accounts of the projects' costs to the city committee as soon as possible.

The city committee has also approved a proposal from the city's Department of Finance to offer each resettled household a 100-square-metre plot of land.

Resettled households would be exempted from paying land-use fees.

Resettled households will also receive VND40 million (US$2,100) to cope with any natural calamities, according to the plan.

The city's Department of Planning and Architecture was also asked to conduct research on and design houses or apartments for resettled households in accordance with the standards for the new rural areas. The findings are expected to be submitted to the city by early this month.

The city's Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs is responsible for conducting research on special cases of poor households that must be resettled.

In addition to these projects, the HCM City People's Committee has approved another plan to build 500 resettlement apartments for families displaced by the project to urbanise the Thu Thiem Bridge area, and 850 apartments for a resettlement project in Ward 12 in Binh Thanh District.

The city committee has asked Binh Thanh District People's Committee to work with departments and agencies to draft a detailed plan on how to move households who live along rivers and canals in the district.

The families will have to be resettled to make way for a project to upgrade Thanh Da residential area in Ward 27 in Binh Thanh District.

The district committee has been urged to finish the projects by 2015. — VNS

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Industrial zone authority launches healthcare plan

HCM CITY — The HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (HEPZA) has worked with local drug producers to launch a programme to take care of workers' health with the use of locally made medicine.

The programme aims to provide better healthcare at lower costs for nearly 300,000 workers in the city's industrial parks (IPs) and export processing zones (EPZs).

Most workers at IPs and EPZs are migrants who work long hours in potentially harmful working environments.

Their accommodations often do not meet standards, making it easy for them to be infected with disease, according to the city Department of Health.

Most enterprises in IPs and EPZs have healthcare rooms, but attention has not been paid to worker's health as enterprises have invested little in healthcare rooms or facilities, according to a HEPZA official.

Tran Dinh Khoa, sales director of Sai Gon Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Sapharco), said his company had supplied medicine for 27 healthcare rooms and clinics in IPs and EPZs.

However, the supply of medicine for these facilities was insufficient, Khoa said.

"Responding to the programme, Sapharco will take the initiative in supplying medicines with the best quality and stable prices for healthcare rooms and clinics in IPs and EPZs," he said.

Other local and joint-stock pharmaceutical companies, including Savipharm, Fresenius Kabi Bidiphar and Ampharco, have also participated in the programme.

The programme is also a response to the Ministry of Health's campaign to encourage people to give priority to made-in Viet Nam medicines which have good quality at reasonable prices.

Pham Khanh Phong Lan, deputy director of the city Department of Health, said to encourage people to give priority for using made-in-Viet Nam drugs, her department would organise seminars and visits to local pharmaceutical companies and doctors.

The city has 20 pharmaceutical companies and they all meet high standards.

Lan has also asked the Ministry to encourage the use of Vietnamese drugs, including investing more in the production of specialised drugs, restricting imports that can be produced locally, and enhancing the quality of locally produced medicines. — VNS

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