The nearest hospital is located in the town of Khe Sanh. However most Bru will not go to the hospital on their own due to the distrust of the Vietnamese and a lack of money to pay for treatment and the medicines that are prescribed. The Bru diet is mostly rice. Regular grain rice is grown in extremely small rice paddies along with sticky rice which is grown on the hillsides. The Bru either grow their crops using cultivated fields or by a slash and burn technique on the surrounding hillsides.
Coffee is the principle cash crop.
However the government doesn't pay very much for it. Pepper is also grown and sold. Soap is non-existent in the communities as there is not enough funds to buy any. Clothes are washed without any type of laundry soap.