Nghe An province in central Vietnam is calling on the Vietnamese government to increase g-bonds for health projects costing VND1.121 trillion ($59 million) in Vinh City, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said. Of the total, VND1 trillion will be...
Ho Chi Minh City has spent VND4.5 trillion ($236.8 million) to a project to build four hospitals since 2007 to reduce the overloads, state media reported Wednesday, citing Nguyen Van Chau, director of the municipal health department. The newly-built...
Forty six doctors and nurses from the Military Hospital 175 and the Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital of Vietnam provided free-of-charge eye examination and surgeries to 200 poor patients in Cambodia on May 4. This is the first charity tour held by the...
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) will grant Vietnam $37 million to purchase five-in-one vaccines for under-one-year-old children from now up to 2012, state media reported. Nguyen Tran Hien, head of the National Institute of...
U.S. Embassy in Hanoi said May 5 that more than 50 U.S. military personnel will come to Can Tho City in southern Vietnam from May 10-17 to give free-of-charge medical examinations to locals. These activities are under a program namely Operation...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thien Nhan called for continuous supports from the Global Fund and the international community for Vietnam’s struggle with tuberculosis (TB). Nhan made his call at the 18th...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has issued a circular to tighten its control over drug quality after fake and poor quality medicines were uncovered, state media reported. “The move is aimed at tightening state management over drug quality to ensure...
The World Bank has agreed to fund $230 million for a project to upgrade 89 kilometers of four National Highways out of the total costs of $305 million in Vietnam, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Hong Truong told the Dau tu newspaper. An...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a technical assistance project for socioeconomic development of Thanh Hoa City costing $2 million funded by the Asian Development Bank. The project is aimed at expanding water supply network, upgrading 65...
Authorities of Ho Chi Minh City have agreed to add VND3.6 trillion ($190.07 million) for the East-West Highway Project funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), said a local official. Of the sum, VND1.4 trillion will come...
