These activities have improved people’s health and strengthened their position in the border area.
The border area of Dak Lak Province has four communes, belonging to two districts of Ea Sup and Buon Don, with 38 villages and hamlets, there are 22 ethnic groups living together, of which ethnic minorities account for 39.3%.
With the characteristics of the climate, the weather has only two seasons, rainy and sunny, and is extremely harsh. The land is barren and transportation is challenging, the villages and hamlets are far apart, so the people's lives are still difficult. Some people do not pay much attention to environmental protection and health care.
Although the medical stations in the border communes have been invested in and built, the medical staff, doctors, and equipment are still lacking, failing to meet the increasing demand for medical examination and treatment of the people.
Ia Rve is a particularly difficult border commune of Ea Sup District. The whole commune currently has more than 2,000 households scattered in 14 villages. Access to health care services is still difficult, especially for those living near the border, more than 50 km from the district centre and more than 120 km from the center of Buon Ma Thuot City.
Understanding the difficulties of the people of Ia Rve Commune, recently, doctors and nurses from the medical sector and the military and civilian medical staff of the Dak Lak Border Guard, regardless of the long distance, went to the commune to examine, provide health consultations and free medicine to the people. During this medical examination and treatment, the provincial health sector has strengthened the system of modern machinery, including the Powermax 1260 X-ray machine and the Acuson P500 ultrasound machine to actively support the work of detecting, diagnosing and having treatment methods for the people.
Specialist Doctor II Nay Phi La, Director of the Provincial Health Department said: To effectively care for people's health, every year, in addition to professional work at hospitals, the Health Department has signed with the Dak Lak Provincial Border Guard Command and other units to increase medical teams and doctors to go to remote, isolated areas, and border areas to examine and provide free medicine to the people.
This time, with eight doctors and modern equipment, machinery, and medicines, in coordination with the military and civilian medical force of the Border Guard, they actively examined people's health, promptly detected and treated diseases, and instructed people on effective disease prevention measures.
Ho Thi Sang, a resident of Village 5, Ia Rve Commune, was thrilled when the doctors examined, consulted and gave her free medicine. Sang shared: “The village cadres informed us that a team of doctors from the province and the Border Guard would come to examine and give her free medicine, so my family and I were ecstatic. We couldn’t sleep all night, just hoping for the morning to come soon.
The doctors came to the village to examine us and enthusiastically gave us instructions on how to treat and prevent infectious diseases, and gave us free medicine. I, as well as the local people, thank the doctors very much! The doctors did not mind the difficult road, coming to this remote area to take care of the people’s health...”.
Recently, at the programme entitled “Spring Border Guard - Warming the hearts of the villagers” in 2025, organised by the Provincial Border Guard Command in the border commune of Ia Lop, Ea Sup District, the accompanying unit, Buon Ma Thuot University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, sent dozens of doctors to participate in medical examination and free medicine distribution for more than 300 people in the border area.
Pham Thi Nam, 74 years old, in Trung Village, Ia Lop Commune, came very early to receive medical examination and free medicine. Nam excitedly said “I came here from Ben Tre Province to start a business 21 years ago, but life is still difficult. Because the locality is far from the center, when I am sick, I do not have the conditions to go to the doctor. Now that doctors are coming to examine and provide free medicine to the people, I came early to get examined. I appreciated the programme very much!”
Vice Chairwoman of the People’s Committee of Ia Lop Commune Lang Thi Nguyen shared that the commune currently has 1,805 households, with 6,315 people, including 15 ethnic groups living together, of which ethnic minorities account for about 52%. In recent years, the people here have always received the attention of the Party, the State and Party committees at all levels, the government, and the Border Guard in the province.
However, people still face difficulties due to the harsh climate and weather, barren land, inconvenient transportation, and the distance between villages and hamlets. When sick, people only go to the commune health station or the military-civilian medical clinic for treatment, and do not have the conditions to go to the district or the province. The provincial Health Department and Border Guard annually organise medical teams to visit the locality to examine patients and provide free medicine. This work has contributed to taking care of the health of people in the border area.
Colonel Dao Viet Hung, Commander of the Dak Lak Provincial Border Guard, affirmed: Wishing to provide the best health care for the people, the Command has selected competent doctors with many years of experience to join the health sector and local authorities in examining and treating people. This is one of the activities that brings practical results, helping people in border areas access modern medical techniques and equipment so that medical examination and treatment can be most effective.
The signing of the coordination regulations between the Border Guard Command and the Dak Lak Provincial Health Sector aims to care for and improve people's health. In the future, the Border Guard Command hopes to always work with the Department of Health to carry out more practical activities so that people in border areas can receive the best health care.
According to the Director of the Nay Phi La Provincial Department of Health: The provincial health sector continues to coordinate closely with the Border Guard to consolidate and improve the capacity of the grassroots health system and military-civilian clinics.
At the same time, medical teams and doctors are regularly organised to go to the border to examine and provide free medicine to people. This activity not only contributes to improving the capacity of the grassroots health network, creating favourable conditions for people in remote, isolated and border areas to access quality health services, but also contributes to strengthening the close relationship between the military and the people, consolidating people’s trust in the Party’s guideline and the State’s policies, thereby continuing to build an increasingly solid people’s position, contributing to protecting territorial sovereignty and national border security.
