Also participating in offering incense with the Ministry of Health delegation were Mr. Ha Van Hung - Head of the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee of Ha Tinh Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Thi Nguyet - Vice Chairman of Ha Tinh Provincial People's Committee, along with representatives of units directly under the Ministry of Health and departments, agencies, and branches of Ha Tinh province.
The delegation came to offer incense at the Great Physician Tomb Area in Hai Thuong village in Huong Son commune and the Hai Thuong Lan Ong Le Huu Trac Memorial Area in Bao Thuong village, Son Giang commune.
Before the spirit of Hai Thuong Lan Ong Le Huu Trac, Comrade Dao Hong Lan - Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Health and members of the working delegation respectfully offered flowers and incense and expressed deep gratitude for the great contributions of the Great Physician to the country's and world's medicine and culture.
The delegation vowed to continue to inherit, preserve and develop the career left by the Great Physician in the work of medical examination and treatment and people's health care.
The incense offering activity of the Ministry of Health delegation aims to express gratitude and commemorate the 235th anniversary of the death of Physician Hai Thuong Lan Ong Le Huu Trac (1791-2026).
Famous physician Hai Thuong Lan Ong was born on November 12, 1724 in Hung Yen province. In his childhood, he followed his father to study in Thang Long capital, early becoming famous for his intelligence in Confucianism, medicine, philosophy, numerology...
Living in a time of turmoil and chaos, at the age of 26, he quit his officialdom to support his elderly mother in his maternal hometown in Bau Thuong village, Tinh Diem commune (now Son Giang commune, Ha Tinh province).
For more than 40 years hiding in the "deep mountains and remote areas", Hai Thuong Lan Ong diligently searched, researched, and cultivated local medicinal plants, wrote poetry, taught, wrote books, and treated diseases and saved people.
He died in 1791, leaving for posterity a bright example of medical ethics, medical theory, and medicine. His tomb is buried at the foot of Minh Tu mountain, by the Ngan Pho river (Huong Son commune, Ha Tinh province).
