Memorial Service for General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong Held in Japan
	Viet Nam Union of Friendship Organizations held Memorial Service for General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong

The Level 2 Field Hospital No. 5 operates according to schedule, ensuring the maintenance of admission and treatment according to the requirements of the United Nations. The Level 2 Field Hospital No. 5 is stationed in an isolated area.

The staff must work with limited resources due to heavy rain and floods. All roads are cut off at the moment. Since 100% of the roads in Bentiu are dirt roads, vehicles will get stuck and overturned due to muddy conditions after the rain.

Those are on the Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan in United Nations peacekeeping operations set up the national flag hoisted half-mast and an altar for Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong for them and international friends to offer their condolences (Photo: Nhan Dan Online)

According to Doctor Nguyen Ha Ngoc, Director of Level 2 Field Hospital No. 5, the Bentiu area is a disputed area, very deprived and difficult. In recent days, peacekeeping forces have not been able to access the residential areas of indigenous people due to floods.

With their enthusiastic spirit, each of the staff of the Level 2 Field Hospital No. 5 contributed their own efforts with what they had in hand and created "unimaginable" stories.

The first story is about the black background cloth for the memorial service, as shared by Doctor Pham Hoang Gia. At the Field Hospital, there was absolutely no black cloth, and in the stationed area it was impossible to go to purchase one due to the rain and floods.

"Even if we could get to the local residential area, there would be no place to buy it, because this is a very poor residential area, mainly refugees, I had the initiative to take a roll of available white cloth, then use a bottle of Chinese ink, which I prepared from Vietnam to practice calligraphy,” said Doctor Pham Hoang Gia.

Doctor Gia dyed the cloth black from the ink bottle to use as a background for the altar. It had to be dyed over and over again, which took many layers of spraying to cover unevenly dyed black areas until the cloth met the requirements.

A cloth was dyed black to use as a background for the altar (Photo: Nhan Dan Online)

After the cloth is dyed, it must be dried on a rainy day. Drying the fabric became a new challenge. Doctor Pham Thi Thanh Giang, nurse Tran Nhu Ngoc, and Nurse Pham Thi Bich Van took turns drying the fabric with their own personal hair dryers.

Drying the fabric became a new challenge and must be done by hand (Photo: Nhan Dan Online).

The width of the backdrop cloth was not a match with the actual wall on which the altar was placed. Nurses Nguyen Thi Nhung and Nguyen Thi Thanh Hang took on this challenge by measuring, cutting, and sewing the backdrop cloth to make it most reasonable and suitable.

At the same time, Chief of Administration Tran Thuan Trang, along with nurses Bui Thi Hue, Duong Kieu Loan, and Nguyen Thi Nhu Ngoc, printed, measured, and cut up from A4 paper the title of the memorial service to paste onto the black background. The final step was for nurse Nguyen Thanh Le Nhan to iron the black backdrop and national flag to make it as formal as possible.

The women's group of Level 2 Field Hospital No. 5 joined together to prepare the memorial service (Photo: Nhan Dan Online).

Wreaths for the memorial service are also unavailable, so all 10 people of the women's group of Level 2 Field Hospital No. 5 took the yellow and white paper to make them by hand. Those who knew the technique taught those who didn't, all staff divided the steps so the wreaths could be ready as soon as possible.

Thanks to the effort of the staff and medical staff of Level 2 Field Hospital No. 5, the altar of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was completed right at the field facility in South Sudan (Photo: Nhan Dan Online).

They also must find a photo frame and while struggling to find a solution, comrade Hoang Trung Hieu, a member of the Air Rescue Team (AMET), volunteered to make one from scratch so that it is best fit the photo that comrade Nguyen Phuoc Tuong, Head of the Planning Department (Operation) had prepared.

Thanks to the efforts of the staff and medical staff of Level 2 Field Hospital No. 5, the altar of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was completed right at the field facility in South Sudan.

"After completing the altar of Uncle Trong, no one said anything but our eyes were filled with encouragement, appreciation, and emotion for each other. We thanked each other and admired each other's efforts to complete the preparation that seemed simple but was very difficult in our current circumstances. Even though we are far away from the Fatherland, we understand that in our hearts, the Fatherland always shines forever, and no matter how far away, our hearts always beat with the same rhythm as our compatriots,” exclaimed nurse Nguyen Thi Thanh Hang, Head of the Women's Group, Level 2 Field Hospital No. 5.

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