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Heart surgery news for 2023

MEDRIX donors have supported 15 Vietnamese children for corrective heart surgery during the first 8 months of 2023. The surgeries are performed in-country by highly-qualified Vietnamese surgeons in two large hospitals in Hue and Hanoi. When the MEDRIX team travels to Vietnam in October, team members will interview more prospective…
MEDRIX
August 25, 2023
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Yesterday we received good news regarding the condition of one of the seven kids MEDRIX sponsored recently for corrective heart surgery. Baby Khai was born Sept 12th and had surgery on Oct 25, when only a month and a half old. He was discharged from the hospital 15 days later.…
MEDRIX
November 10, 2022
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Sponsored heart surgeries

In May, 2022, MEDRIX sponsored 5 more corrective  heart surgeries for children from low-income families. Currently, ten (10) children are on the wait list for MEDRIX sponsorship for heart surgeries -- hopefully, all will be completed by the end of July. Since the beginning of this program about ten years…
MEDRIX
June 6, 2022
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Medical Mapping class begins

Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy will partner with MEDRIX to teach a class on the use of maps to visualize public health data. It is said "a picture is worth a thousand words" and mapping data is one way to create meaningful pictures for public health workers by providing…
MEDRIX
March 7, 2022
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Water Projects Finish Up in Time for School!

Our partners at the Center for Preventative Medicine of Thua Thien-Hue Province, led by Dr. Hoang Ha Tu, have just finished our water projects in rural preschools in Vietnam, just in time for school to start! Thanks to the generosity of MEDRIX donors, we were able to donate 31 water…
MEDRIX
September 12, 2017
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Plans for the Future of Safe Water Development in Central Vietnam

Developing a grassroots community program has so many rewarding and fun parts to it: seeing smiles on kid's faces as they learn how to hand-wash with soap, sponsoring safe water systems to many villages in desperate need of a suitable water source for drinking, and laughter as health professionals practice…
MEDRIX
August 8, 2017
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Three Heart Surgeries Completed, Thanks to MEDRIX Donors!

Three more lives have been saved, thanks to the generosity of MEDRIX donors! Congenital heart defects are some of the most common birth defects globally, but it can still be a struggle to receive the care needed in areas of Vietnam. Surgery continues to be expensive, even when families qualify…
MEDRIX
June 5, 2017
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Autism Workshop Just Completed!

MEDRIX is very excited to announce that our sponsored workshop "Assessment Strategies and Early Intervention for Children with ASD" has just wrapped up with great success! Dr. Thanh Ngoc Minh at National Children's Hospital in Hanoi supervised 2 pilot workshops immediately after the MEDRIX team finished our site visit and…
MEDRIX
May 15, 2017