The project also aims to assist Da Nang City’s local authorities to fulfil the target of having no underprivileged households in the city lacking food during social distancing period due to Covid-19.

Smart ‘Rice ATM’ launched to support poor people amid Covid-19 outbreak.

The new ‘rice ATM’ is installed with smart technologies including digitising the recipient's data, making a phone call to the recipient to notify them about the times they may receive rice, and recognising the recipient's faces.

Accordingly, the Da Nang City Red Cross Society has made a list of poor households in the city with their necessary information, which will be sent to their residential areas’ authorities for verification.

The recipients’ information will then be updated on the rice ATM’s system to make a phone call to book an appointment with them.

The recipients have also been instructed to confirm their appointment or changes the time for receiving rice using the numeric keys on their phone. People don't need to have smartphones to use the function.

These smart features will help the recipients save time to receive rice, practice social distancing, ensure fairness and equality regarding the quantity of rice being distributed to each person.

According to Chairwoman of Da Nang City Red Cross Society Le Thi Nhu Hong, the rice dispenser will provide approximately 3,000 people with 20 tonnes of rice, values at around VND300 million.

Waste water treatment station put in operation in Dinh Tram industrial park

(BGO) – After nearly 7 months of construction, Bac Giang Infrastructure Development Joint Stock Company (Company) has completed upgrading, revamping to officially operate the concentrated waste water treatment station in Dinh Tram industrial park, Viet Yen district, Bac Giang province.

Bustling atmosphere in ripe lychee season

In the early days of June, people in the two districts of Thanh Ha (Hai Duong province) and Luc Ngan (Bac Giang province) harvest lychees in a husty and eager manner. The 2020 crop is looking to to be a fruitful season for lychee farmers, with production levels and selling prices both increasing. 

Vice President praises inventor of “rice ATM”

Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on April 17 sent a letter of commendation to praise Hoang Tuan Anh from Ho Chi Minh City for his invention, the “rice ATM”, which is supporting the disadvantaged amidst Covid-19 epidemic

Bac Giang provides online instruction of Covid-19 diagnosis and treatment

(BGO) – The Department of Health in Bac Giang province on March 16 organized an online training course to instruct the Covid-19 diagnosis and treatment to the officers, doctors and nurses on duty of disease prevention and control at the state and private medical facilities and centers in the province.  

Bac Giang health sector improves service quality, treatment capacity

(BGO) - Implementing the mission of taking care of the people's health, the medical examination and treatment facilities in Bac Giang province have been making efforts to invest in infrastructure and improve the skills of medical staff to meet requirements and please patients.

Source: NDO