Doctors of Singaporean ParkwayHealth Group will provide free-of-charge check-ups to Vietnamese cancer patients at its representative office in Hanoi on April 4, the Ha noi moi newspaper reported Mar. 29. As a leading healthcare group in Singapore,...
Ho Chi Minh City plans to invest VND1.5 trillion ($80.8 million) to build a 1,000-sickbed cancer hospital to reduce the workload at its tumor hospital. The money will be sourced from the city budget and g-bonds, the Thanh nien newspaper reported....
The Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) under the Ministry of Health said that 1,628 new cases of HIV infection were detected across the country in Mar, up 27.5% against Feb. In March, 533 AIDS developers and 225 deaths of the disease...
The Japanese Business Association in Ho Chi Minh City (JBAH) has donated VND800 million ($41,900) to three hospitals in the city, the Thoi bao Kinh te Saigon Online newspaper reported. The money, which was collected during the 14th charity bazaar...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health held a conference Tuesday to discuss measures to enhance effectiveness of official development assistance (ODA)-funded projects, the Gia Dinh & Xa Hoi newspaper reported Mar. 31. The ministry will continue...
The Hanoi Club for Parents of Autistic Children will join hands with O2TV television channel to organize a meeting and run on April 11 to help autistic children, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan newspaper reported April 2. The program is aimed at improving...
Dengue fever affected 7,300 cases in Vietnam, killing three people in the first three months of this year, down 28% from a year earlier, said the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Health and Environment Department. The MoH was quoted by the state-run...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of An Giang has started building a clean water supply plant worth VND21 billion ($1.1 million) in Tinh Bien district, the Vietnam News Agency said April 2. Once operational in 2011, the plant with a daily capacity of...
Vietnam lost nearly 1.8 million cubic meters of clean water per day last year, accounting for 30% of the total daily water supply, said experts at a conference in the central city of Danang last week. Although the water loss rate decreased by 5%...
Vietnam saved more than 500,000 kWh of electricity during the “Earth Hour 2010”, the state-run Vietnam News Agency cited the National Electricity Dispatching Center as saying Mar. 29. The result came after a mass switch off between 8:30 am and 9:30...
