Up to 60,000 Vietnamese children aged less than 14 suffer from cerebral palsy, a health expert said at a thee-day training course on treating and diagnosing the disease in Ho Chi Minh City starting June 30. Cerebral palsy was mainly caused by birth trauma, brain injury and complications of meningitis and encephalitis, the Tuoi Tre newspaper cited Doctor Vo Toan Trung from the France-based hospital as saying. Trung added every 400 newborns there is one suffering from cerebral palsy. Early this year, the Ministry of Health issued a regulation to provide free-of-charge treatment for children under six suffering with cerebral palsy. Viral encephalitis attacked 120 people in 15 provinces and cities in Vietnam last month, killing seven people, the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Health Department.
