Former Japanese PM presents wheelchairs to AO victims

Former Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio in collaboration with the Institute of Community Health (ICH) under the Ministry of Health has held a ceremony to present wheelchairs to Vietnamese Agent Orange/Dioxin (AO ) victims.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio in collaboration with the Institute of Community Health (ICH) under the Ministry of Health has held a ceremony to present wheelchairs to Vietnamese Agent Orange/Dioxin (AO ) victims.

At the event, which took place in the Ecopark township, Van Giang district, Hung Yen province, about 13km from centre of Hanoi, 50 wheelchairs worth 3.98 million JPY (about US$34,000) were handed over to AO victims from provinces nationwide, including Dong Nai, Hung Yen and Nghe An.

This is the second time the former Japanese PM Hatoyama Yukio Office and a Japanese association has donated wheelchairs to Vietnam.

Hatoyama Yukio, who served as Prime Minister of Japan from September 2009 to June 2010, was also President of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance.