[governance-vn] NA Delegates Criticize Post-Detoxification Assistance Program

[Vern Weitzel]

Subject: [vnnews-l] NA/Health: NA Delegates Criticize Post-Detoxification 
Assistance Program
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:33:45 -0700 (PDT)
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Vietnam News Briefs: Politics & Law: NA Delegates Criticize
Post-Detoxification Assistance Program
Vietnam News Briefs (Vietnam) - April 22, 2008
from the VIETNAM NEWS BRIEFS, April 22, 2008 The Vietnam National Assembly
criticized Monday [April 21] a project which provides job training to
former drug addicts, state media reported

Under the NA Decree No 16, dated in June 2003, addicts who have finished
detoxification are divided into two categories, those likely to succumb to
heroin again and those ready for a job in the community

The meeting's report indicated a total of 32,228 people have qualified for
job skills training

The decree will expire early August and many local delegates proposed the
NA to extend it

However, NA delegates wondered the reported figure was misleading as the
number of true volunteers in the group is very low

Ho Chi Minh City has spent nearly VND1.2 trillion ($76 million) on the
project but only successfully rehabilitated 16,000 people, said Nguyen Van
Thuan, Chief of National Assembly Legal Committee

The future of the project will be decided at the third session of the
lawmaking body, expected on May 6. (Thanh Nien Daily Apr 22 p2, New Hanoi
p1, People's Army p1) Copyright 2008 Vietnam News Briefs
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