On Sept 6, Coca Cola inaugurated a safe water construction at the Van Binh secondary school, together with other safe water constructions in Thuong Tin district, Hanoi, providing nearly 6,000 pupils and students and 183 families access to safe water...
A seminar on boosting Vietnam-France cooperation in clean water supply and environmental sanitation was held in Paris, France on Sept 7, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said late Sept 8. The event was part of a cooperation agreement between France...
Authorities of Vietnam’s central province of Binh Dinh are seeking official development assistance (ODA) loan for a health project worth more than $3.6 million. The sum will be used to buy medical equipments for a general hospital in Phu Phong town...
Authorities of Vietnam’s central highlands province of Kon Tum have approved a project to upgrade Ngoc Hoi District Hospital worth VND110.33 billion from the state budget. Under the project, the hospital will be upgraded to 250 sickbeds from the...
Dengue fever has attacked 55,430 people in Vietnam since early this year, including 42 deaths, the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Medicine Department said. Of the infection cases, the southern region tops the list with 30,307 patients, including 30...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend Vietnam $60 million to promote a health human resources development program in rural and remote areas from now up to 2015. ADB and the State Bank of Vietnam signed an agreement to this effect in Hanoi on...
Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital put into operation a clinical nutrition center on Sept 9, the first of its kind in Vietnam, the hospital’s director Nguyen Quoc Anh said at the launching ceremony. The center is part of a project on clinical nutrition...
More than 100 experts from the U.S., Japan, Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines gathered at an international seminar in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Sept 9 to seek measures against infectious diseases in the Southeast Asian...
The German Reconstruction Bank (KfW) signed a nine-year credit contract with the state-run Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN) in Hanoi on Sept 7 to finance EUR120 million for the project “Enhancing energy efficiency in rural areas” in Vietnam. The...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a $100-million loan to improve irrigation infrastructure in Vietnam, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said Sept 8. An agreement to this effect was signed between ADB and the State Bank of Vietnam in...
