General News

  • The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide technical assistance to a project to help Vietnam’s Cho Ray Hospital improve medical rehabilitation services from now up to 2013. The JICA and the hospital yesterday signed an agreement...
    Monday, 8th March, 2010
  • Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue authority has approved a plan to build an obstetrics and pediatrics hospital costing VND115.474 billion ($6 million) from the state budget. The hospital, to be built on a site of 15,689 square meters in...
    Monday, 8th March, 2010
  • As many as 27,000 workers in Vietnam contracted occupation diseases last year, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs said without giving comparative figures. Among diseases, cases of pneumoconiosis due to dust containing silica...
    Monday, 8th March, 2010
  • The U.S. Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) and Australian Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) have granted a combined $2.2 million to help improve training capacity of medical workers at the Hanoi-based Central Eye Hospital. The physicians are expected to...
    Monday, 8th March, 2010
  • The central highlands province of Dak Lak is coordinating with Mondulkiri province of Cambodia to fight malaria in border districts of the two provinces. Almost 100,000 people at high risk of contracting malaria living in Ea Sup and Buon Don in Dak...
    Monday, 8th March, 2010
  • A workshop titled “Updates and Best Practices in Second Generation HIV/AIDS Surveillance: The Asia Experience” is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City from Mar 1-5 with the participation of experts from 14 regional nations. The event, following the...
    Monday, 8th March, 2010
  • Vietnam will open a U.S. Orbis-financed $500,000 eye bank at the Hanoi-based Central Eye Hospital Mar. 25, the first of its kind in the country so far. The bank is expected to supply 200 corneas a year, the hospital said, adding it has conducted...
    Monday, 8th March, 2010
  • The Italian Embassy and University of Sassari will join hands with Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy to organize a healthcare festival in Vietnam’s central city of Hue in June. The event, which is part of Hue Festival 2010 on June 5-13, is...
    Monday, 8th March, 2010
  • Vietnam’s southern province of Soc Trang will invest more than VND60.28 billion ($3.16M) to carry out a clean water supply project for poor people this year. Of the sum, VND54.254 billion will come from the state budget and the rest from the...
    Monday, 8th March, 2010
  • Ho Chi Minh City has raised prices of clean water by 48% from today [March 1] and will hike 10% a year from 2011 to 2013, state media reported March 1. Under a decision approved by the city’s authorities, households that use up to four cubic meters...
    Monday, 8th March, 2010