it's Mayhem:
Lien Aid is working with the NHP to efficiently provide clean water with new treatment tanks. Older pipes are susceptible to leaks, resulting
in wastage.
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Hope is back for the many child patients of the National Hospital of Pediatrics (NHP), thanks to the efforts of Lien Aid and its partners.
Patients were previously required to pay for drinking water but Lien Aid and its partners have been working on a project which provides safe drinking water to Vietnam’s hospitals at the national and district levels. Each year, more than 400,000 in patient and out patient young children are now able to enjoy safe drinking water at the NHP.
Lien Aid works with the private sector and various institutions to enhance its water treatment efforts. For example, Borouge, a leading provider of innovative plastic solutions, supplied the pipes for the aseptic system as part of its corporate social responsibility programme. Borouge is also supporting Lien Aid in a district hospital project located in Ha Tin province.
In March 2009, two 1000-litre filter-and-purification systems that supply clean drinking water round the clock to 40 water points throughout the hospital were installed. At the same time, toilets with proper flush systems at 4 locations around the hospital were built, thus providing for proper sanitation and clean drinking water supply.
The dilemma of the NHP is not unlike other hospitals: it requires 700 to 800 cubic metres of water a day to function optimally. It is only able to draw 50 percent of its daily water needs from the municipal water supply pipe. As for the other half of its water source, the hospital had to resort to using groundwater which is available by drilling a 50-metre-deep well on its premises.
The hospital lacked a comprehensive water filtration system to treat the water effectively – until Lien Aid and its partners undertook this project.
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