The charity clinic was established in 1991 by Priest Jacob Nguyễn Đức Thịnh, Head of Saint Joseph Temple Parish in Thanh Dong A commune of Tan Hiep district. Initially it had only several sheds built with temporary materials, some beds, few sacks of traditional medicines and several acupunctures.

For meeting an increasing number of patients, the health clinic has gradually been expanded and upgraded. Currently, it has separate functioning areas for health check, test, treatment and recovery, as well as supporting facilities, such as accommodations for staff, medicines processing and herbal plantation zones, etc. The health center also has modern equipments for health examination and treatment, such as heart scanner and ultrasound and X-Ray machines.

The charity clinic currently has 60 serving staff, including three priests and several doctors and physicians specializing in both modern and traditional methods. They all adopt core values in health services in the country, including moral standards and fine serving approaches, such as “Taking patients as centers of service”, “Embracing society for services”, and President Ho Chi Minh’s words sent to health sector “Regarding patients as one’s own relatives”.

The health center is daily providing health examinations and treatments for over 200 patients, and accommodations for nearly 500 patients, regardless of their religious or racial backgrounds.

The health clinic currently offers free health examinations and takes fees for health treatment as low as 15-20% of fees presently regulated by the State. Poor patients and those who are religious clergymen and clergywomen are provided with free treatments at the clinic.

In addition, the charity clinic provides free accommodation, daily meals (500 meals a day) and drinking water for patients staying in the clinic, as well as free usage of blankets, mats, etc. The clinic also offers additional assistances to poor patients in transportation and buying medicines or other necessities.

Besides, Nhan Dao Clinic has organized many charitable programs outside of its geographical location, including charity visits to remote areas for implementing free health examination for the disadvantaged, construction of eight charitable houses for the poor, monthly supports to 15 disadvantaged families in the locality and construction of nine pure water producing machines that can provide clean water for up to 4,000 people per machine daily, etc.

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