The capital city of Hanoi will invest over 160 billion VND, or 7.18 million USD, in an initiative to boost the early detection of birth defects in the city between 2016 and 2020.

An MoU on labour sanitation and occupational disease prevention was signed on July 13 in Hanoi by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Occupational Safety and Health Agency.

Ho Chi Minh City is striving to increase the number of drug addicts accessing methadone treatment to 8,000.

Vietnam needs to increase investment in adolescent girls for a sustainable and equal development, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has said.

The first national simulation training lab for anesthesia and intensive care has been inaugurated in Hanoi.

The number of people catching dengue fever sharply increased in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak in the rainy season, according to the province’s Preventive Medical Centre.

Vietnam’s national action plan for prevention and control of hospital infections between 2016 and 2020 will focus on improving effectiveness at health facilities to ensure patient and staff safety.

Proper hand-washing with soap could save Vietnamese children from diarrheal and respiratory disease.

A medical technique building was unveiled at the Thai Nguyen National General Hospital in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on July 3.

The General Department of Preventive Medicine has warned the community to take active measures against Japanese encephalitis (JE) which reaches its peak season in June and July.

Vietnam is among 15 countries with the highest number of smokers in the world.

As many as six more cases of Japanese encephalitis (JE) have been reported in Hanoi over the past week, raising the total cases to nine, the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre announced on June 29.

The number of people suffering from pink-eye disease has increased rapidly in many localities in Vietnam due to the unpredictable pattern of weather, particularly the prolonged heat

Hanoi’s healthcare system needs thorough plans for infrastructure and human resources, or it will lag behind other modernised cities, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Chung said.