Building dioxin detoxification center in Da Nang

A dioxin detoxification center will be invested in Da Nang, which is identified as contaminated with dioxin toxic chemicals used by the US military in the war years with the number of infected people up to millions .

>>>Completing the dioxin cleanup in Da Nang in 2016

This morning, February 22, City People's Committee Office. Da Nang said, City People's Committee. Da Nang has agreed to assign the Association of Agent Orange Victims in Da Nang to expedite the establishment of the Center for Dioxin Detoxification of the Association in 2013.

Deploy mine and dioxin disposal in Da Nang. (Photo: VietNamNet)

The Association of Victims of Agent Orange in Da Nang said that in addition to funding from the budget, the Association will mobilize benefactors to join hands to build a detoxification center to serve Agent Orange victims in Da Nang City. Nang and other provinces in the region such as Da Nang Cancer Hospital model have been put into operation.

Previously, according to the US Embassy's press release in Vietnam confirmed: On February 19, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced USAID signed a contract with TerraTherm Company to implementing the package of dioxin treatment at Da Nang airport in Vietnam by heat treatment technology.

TerraTherm's treatment technology plays a key role in a US-funded project to clean up dioxin contamination in areas of Danang airport - once used to store and load clear defoliants. war in Vietnam.

USAID is working closely with the Government of Vietnam and other contractors to implement this project until 2016. USAID selects TerraTherm's abatement thermal removal (IPTD) technology to treat about 73,000m of soil mass. and mud at Danang airport.

The statement also said that the IPTD technology used has the ability to safely and effectively treat contaminated soil to meet Vietnam's cleaning standards as demonstrated in similar-sized projects. United States. TerraTherm is working with Krüger / VWS-VN to implement this project.