Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai Mar. 23 started building a general hospital named Dang Thuy Tram that costs VND56 billion ($2.93 million) worth of g-bonds in Duc Pho Township. Covering on a site of 23,973 sq.m, the hospital is upgraded from...
Standard Chartered Bank said Mar. 23 that it will grant $630,000 more to the Vietnam urban childhood blindness prevention project. The three-year project, to be funded through the Fred Hollows Foundation, is aimed at improving the quality of eye...
The U.S. government will donate $100,000 worth of medical equipment to help Vietnamese health workers to cope with bird flu or A/H1N1 flu outbreaks, the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam said in a statement Mar. 22. The United States Agency for International...
The Australian government has pledged AUD10.7 million ($9.76 million) for a project to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS associated with drug use in Vietnam, the Phap Luat Vietnam newspaper reported Mar. 26. Vietnam’s Ministry of Health and the HIV/...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has urged Hanoi’s authority to tighten healthcare services ahead of the 16th ASEAN Summit slated for April 8-9, state media reported Mar. 25. The MOH also requested the city’s Health Department to ensure food safety and...
Up to 80% of diseases in Vietnam are caused by polluted water resources, said the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment at a ceremony in Hanoi Mar. 23 to mark the World Water Day and 60th birthday of the World Meteorological Organization....
Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri authorities have approved the second phase of a clean water supply and environmental sanitation project that costs $2.7 million. The UN Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) has donated $2.17 million to the...
Vietnam is estimated to lose VND165 trillion ($8.6 billion) due to water leakages a year, the Dat Viet newspaper reported. The Southeast Asian nation invests thousands of billions of dong to upgrade water supply systems a year. However, only 70% of...
The Japanese Embassy in Vietnam said Wednesday the Japanese government has approved an underground water sources-tapping project worth JPY2.05 billion ($22.3 million) in the central highlands region of Vietnam. Previously, Japan provided financial...
Vietnam has reported nine food poisoning cases in the month to date, which affected 161 people, the Suc Khoe & Doi Song newspaper reported Mar. 25, citing the Ministry of Health. No death was found, the ministry said, adding that microorganism,...
