(VOVworld) – Restrictions in programs and social services to support victims of bombs and mines to reintegrate into the community topped a seminar in Hanoi on Wednesday to increase help for those people.

Leftover bombs and mines have killed about 42,130 people and injured another 62,160, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs. (Photo: baodaidoanket)

Participants said Vietnam was seriously contaminated by unexploded ordnances and suffer from the greatest consequences in the world. Since 1975 bombs and mines left over by the war have killed more than 40,000 people, injured 60,000 others mostly in the central region and a majority of them are main workers in the families and children.

To Duc, deputy director of the Department for Social Sponsorship of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs, said from now until 2020 a national overall plan will be designed to help victims of bombs and mines to re-integrate into the community.

He said the plan will focus on providing timely rescue and treatment, means of subsistence, loans, and vocational training, improve the capacity of the national rehabilitation system, and increase the quantity of personnel involved in rehabilitation.

“The Ministry of Labors, Invalids, and Social Affairs is completing a plan on a database of disabled people including bomb and mine victims and will submit it to the Prime Minister. This will be a foundation to develop a united database for all ministries, agencies, and partners at home and abroad to refer to,” according to Duc.