The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has completed and surpassed all set targets in the coverage of social, unemployment and health insurance, according to VSS General Director Nguyen The Manh.

The Ministry of Health’s Department of Preventive Medicine on January 16 asked localities nationwide to keep a close watch on the disease situation in the face of complex developments of infectious diseases, especially respiratory ones, around the world.

The US Mission to Vietnam, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), on January 16 announced training and technical support for Bach Mai Hospital Stroke Centre to improve stroke care in Vietnam and the Mekong sub-region.

A second foetal cardiac intervention has been successfully performed by doctors from Tu Du Hospital and Children's Hospital No.1 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam has made concerted effort to achieve its goal of providing nutritional support to 100% of malnourished children in ethnic minorities in mountainous regions.

Doctors at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi have successfully performed multi-organ transplant from two brain-dead donors to eight patients, according to hospital director Duong Duc Hung.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has acknowledged Vietnam as a reference model in preventing and combating the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnam will prioritise injecting combined DPT-VGB-Hib vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B, and haemophilus influenza type B (Hib), also known as 5-in-1 vaccine, for the youngest age group from 2 months old and more, the Ministry of Health said on December 19.

Australia's government agreed to give 490,600 doses of ‘5 in 1’ vaccine to Vietnam through the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

There are at least 40,000 deaths caused by tobacco-related diseases in Vietnam each year, heard a conference held by the Health Ministry in Hanoi on December 12 to review 10-year enforcement of the Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harm.

Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital, the leading medical facility in the south, said on December 6 that it has successfully produced two new radioactive drugs used to diagnose, monitor and treat prostate cancer and neuroendocrine tumors.

The Ministry of Health is working hard to ensure vaccine supply for the national expanded programme on immunisation (EPI), heard a regular Government press conference in Hanoi on December 6.

More than 110 million USD will be spent on developing a grassroots healthcare network in disadvantaged areas in Vietnam, the Ministry of Health announced at the conference to launch Phase I of the healthcare development programme on December 5.

Home to over 5,100 medical plant species, Vietnam has potential for planting and the turning herbal medicine industry into an economic advantage, even for export, according to Head of Traditional Medicine Management Department under the Health Ministry Nguyen The Thinh.