Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has approved a range of contents for climate change response in 2016 with the support of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). The...
As much as 90% of Vietnamese population lack iodine, which is the main cause for thyroid diseases, according to a survey by the Ministry of Health (MoH). Doctor Dinh Van Truc, deputy head of the Surgery Department of the National Hospital of...
In a rare move that will bring greater accountability into Vietnam's heath care sector, the Ministry of Health has proposed a new rule that will hold the government accountable for adverse complications from vaccination. The rule, expected to take...
Vietnam is one of the nine countries in the Southeast Asia having the highest rate of hepatitis, with 10% of the country’s 90-million population having hepatitis B and between 2%-6% having hepatitis C, according to statistics from the World Health...
More than 15,000 of 20 million children were reported to have suffered minor side effects after being injected with the measles – rubella vaccine from late 2014 to May 2015. The children, ages 1 to 14, reported side effects, including fever and...
All districts across Vietnam have reached a measles-rubella vaccination rate of over 95%, according the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health (MOH), which is now urging all provinces to complete the immunization work to have...
The Hanoi Department of Construction has inspected hospitals in the city, uncovering wrongdoings at four local hospitals in weight miscalculations, incorrect unit prices, and wrong payment appraisal worth billions of dong, the Tien Phong newspaper...
Vietnam has nearly four million people, or 3.9% of the population suffering from asthma as a result of rising environmental pollution and between 3,000 and 4,000 people die each year from the chronic lung disease, the Vietnam News Agency on July 28...
Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An is preparing to soon open the Vinh International Hospital, which cost nearly VND900 billion ($41.25 million), on expectation that the new modern facility would help ease overload for medical demand at central-...
The Ministry of Health's Preventive Medicine Department, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and Pasteur Institute plan to launch a campaign in late 2015 to provide free measles-rubella vaccines to more than 2 million young women in high-...
