Nurse Ha is 30 years old and the mother of 2 children. She is very committed to improving her nursing practice and is excited to put her training from MEDRIX into good use. She plans to use her new knowledge of English medical terminology, nursing diagnosis, the nursing process, and English communication skills to make herself a better nurse and help her young patients.

MEDRIX is pleased to be able to continue to provide ongoing nurse training courses in Vietnam to improve nursing skills and nursing process. We would not be able to conduct these courses without the support of our generous donors. You make a difference in the lives of the nurses who are able to take the courses we offer and that improves the quality of care for their patients. We sincerely thank you, Vivek, Lesley, SaveLoveGive, and Santi James, for you donation.

Providing young kids with clean water to wash their hands and brush their teeth is only one part of the ongoing effort to improve hygiene practices in the rural village schools of Central Vietnam. The My Phu preschool in the Phong Dien District will be the recipient of a MEDRIX water system this year. As part of that installation, we are also providing them with the necessary hygiene supplies to make use of their new water source. Your generous gift will help us purchase supplies such as soap, toothbrushes, and toothpaste to set these kids on the path to a healthier life. They will be taught how to use these hygiene tools in a proper way to get the most health benefit from them.

Without your generous support, MEDRIX would not be able to do this work in Vietnam. We sincerely thank you.

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the quality of life for people living in Vietnam, MEDRIX works to provide water treatment systems for rural village schools.

Your generous donations have helped bring us one step closer to funding a brand new school installation site for 2013 at the Phu Xuan 1 Primary School in the Phu Vang District. The goal of our safe water development program is to establish a base for healthier living and proper hygiene practices. School children are taught proper hand-washing techniques along with oral care in addition to safe drinking water access. The result is a lower incidence of illness. Once a treatment system is installed, the schools fill large jugs with the filtered water to use during the day in the classrooms.

In the hot and humid climate of Vietnam, water is an ever present need. The children are able to fill their cups throughout the day with water that is safe to drink. Additionally, MEDRIX partners will keep tabs on the systems once they are installed to ensure that they continue to work properly and receive repairs as needed.

We wish to thank you, Vivek, Jason, Mark, and Mizue, for your support of clean and safe water. Your contributions are vital to the ongoing efforts of MEDRIX as they provide access to tools necessary for healthier lives.

Nurse Ngat is 32 years old and has worked at the National Pediatric Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam for the last seven years. She has a young son of her own. Ngat wants to use the knowledge that she has learned from her participation in this nurse training course to help make it the standard in her department. She desires that everyone in her department, and eventually throughout the hospital, use the steps of the nursing process to provide better care to their patients and more effectively diagnose and treat illnesses. Nurse Ngat hopes that her participation in the course will improve her English, improve her communication skills with her patients, and give her the opportunity to teach others about the nursing process.

Your generous donations, Corina, Tony, and Vijay has made it possible for Nurse Ngat to attain her goals and help improve the quality of care given to her young patients and their parents. MEDRIX is grateful for your support and we sincerely thank you.

Nurse Mai Huong is a nurse at the National Pediatric Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam. She became a nurse because her mother was a nurse, but she has realized how much she loves her job working with children. She adores her small patients and desires to improve her own nursing skills to better serve them. Her participation in the MEDRIX nurse training course is a way for her to improve her English medical language, improve her nursing skills, and become a more effective nurse. While she provides care to her younger charges, Nurse Mai Huong is also an educator to their parents, using her platform as caregiver to educate the families on good hygiene, disease prevention, and overall healthcare.

Medical professionals like Nurse Mai Huong are crucial to the ongoing efforts of MEDRIX to provide educational resources to disadvantaged communities in Vietnam. Participation in training courses gives the nurses and doctors better tools to interact with their patients and impress upon them the knowledge they need to lead healthier lives. This education aspect is paired with MEDRIX’s goal of installing water filtration and hand-washing stations in rural village schools, thereby providing the people of the villages with the tools to use the knowledge learned from these exceptional medical professionals.

We sincerely thank you Patricia, Patricia, and Sandra for your contribution.

The children of the Phong Chuong Preschool in Phong Dien District, Vietnam are learning proper hygiene techniques, such as washing their hands with soap and safe water, because of your generosity! Soap is a novel thing for them to have and in their excitement, they can go through a lot of it. To help the soap last longer, it is placed inside nylon bags.

It is truly rewarding to see children excited about learning something that is considered normal by those of us in better circumstances.Your gift, Nancy, helps keep schools such as this supplied with hygiene supplies while teaching the children how to properly use those supplies. This reduces the spread of disease and gives them a shot at a healthier life.

MEDRIX sincerely thanks you for your contribution, Nancy. Without the generous support of individuals like you, we would not be able to do what we do. You are helping us make great changes and improve the lives of the people in Vietnam.

Thank you for supporting MEDRIX, a nonprofit that saves lives and improves the quality of life in Southeast Asia by providing medical resources, international health education, child heart surgeries, and safe water development. Dr. Thuy is a staff doctor at Hue Central Hospital and is 27 years old. She has worked at the hospital for just over one year. She is an extremely caring individual who is committed to continuing her own education to better serve her patients.The families that come to Dr. Thuy are often very poor and one of her main goals is to help improve the health of the children in these families. Along with her own educational goals, Dr. Thuy herself is a teacher to students and to her patients. Your donation will help her increase her knowledge and medical English understanding to further her effectiveness in explaining diagnosis, treatments, and interventional care to those who need her the most.

MEDRIX sincerely thanks you for your contribution, Robert. Without the generous support of individuals like you, we would not be able to do what we do. You are helping us make great changes and improve the lives of the people in Vietnam.

Thank you all for supporting Medrix as they work to save lives and improve the quality of life in Southeast Asia by providing medical resources, international health education, child heart surgeries, and safe water development. Your contributions funded a training course for Ms. Ha, a nurse who works in a large pediatric hospital in Vietnam. Thanks to your generous support she has now successfully completed the MEDRIX sponsored, Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) course!

IMCI was developed by the World Health Organization in partnership with UNICEF as an international resource designed to train nurses in emerging countries on how to detect common childhood illnesses earlier rather than later.

At the beginning of the course, Nurse Ha said that her goal was to learn the danger signs and symptoms of severe illness among children in Central Vietnam, and this course has helped her reach her goal. She said that now she will be able to help severely ill children in quickly assessing their condition and assuring that her nursing team is working together to provide the best possible care for each child.

Thank you Don, John, Francoise, Mia, James and Julie, and James for you generosity!

Dr. Nguyen will now be able to care for hundreds and thousands of sick children more effectively thanks to your donations. She completed the MEDRIX-sponsored Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) at the Pediatric Department of Hue Central Hospital, Vietnam. The course is especially important for early intervention in childhood illness. The 37-year-old doctor believes the training will have an enduring positive impact on her patients at the Thuy Chau clinic, where she has worked for 15 years, and the surrounding Huong Thuy district.

Dr. Nguyen said that the education and training would help her further develop her professional skills. “The training will enable me to properly identify childhood disease, review pediatric disease, and to fully manage each case,” she said. “The training will also help me to reach my long-term professional goal of providing better primary care for patients in the Huong Thy district.”

Your generosity, Lorrin, Richard, Jeffrey, Tom, and James, will give countless sick children a fighting chance. Thank you for your kindness!

Doctor Nguyen Duy Duc has completed his Pediatric Assessment Class in the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) at the Hue Central Hospital in Vietnam.

Dr Duy Duc will take his acquired expertise back to the Thuong Quang Clinic where he has worked for eight years. The new knowledge and skills he has gained are vital to his dedicated practice among the people he serves.

“The course will enable me to give correct disease classification and treatment,” Dr Duy Duc said.

“It will reduce child mortality and improve the physical health and development of the child.”

He said that while these were some of the immediate benefits of the course, the training would also help him reach his long-term goals of benefiting the Thuong Quang community.

“My long-term professional goals are to improve the health care service at primary clinics, which this training will definitely help me to do,” he said.