The Preventive Medicine Department under the Health Ministry has warned of the danger of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) which is spreading in a number of African countries.

Breastfeeding can help reduce 13 percent of the rate mortality of children under five years old, or save about 6 million children from infectious diseases, a health official has said.

Vietnam will sign the ASEAN Agreement on Medical Device at the 46 th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting, scheduled to take place in Myanmar later this month.

Japanese encephalitis, commonly known as "brain inflammation", has claimed the lives of 10 children in the northern mountainous province of Son La, revealed Director of the provincial Health Department Lau Say Chu.

The northern city of Hai Phong has planned to earmark about 3.6 billion VND (169,000 USD) for a large-scale vaccination campaign against measles and rubella for children aged between 1 and 14.

A pilot model to raise awareness of the fight against HIV/AIDS and discrimination in ethnic minority-inhabited areas was launched in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on July 31.

A programme for the health of the elderly across the country will be launched in Hanoi on August 3.

A Vietnam - Japan digestive endoscopy centre was put into operation at Hanoi ’s Bach Mai Hospital on July 29.

Nearly 200,000 children from 1-14 years old in the northern province of Ha Nam will be vaccinated against measles-rubella as part of the 2014-2015 vaccination scheme announced by the provincial Health Department on July 28.

A meeting was held in Ho Chi Minh City on July 28 in response to World Hepatitis Day, during which a representative from the World Health Organisation released statistics showing that 11 in every 100,000 Vietnamese people are infected with hepatitis virus - a “silent killer”.

The Cancer Centre of Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture will assist the Cancer Hospital of the central city of Da Nang in improving personnel capacity under a cooperation memorandum of understanding inked on July 24.

Doctors at the Central Paediatrics Hospital in Hanoi on July 22 successfully separated two conjoined babies in an operation that lasted nearly three hours.

The Ministries of Health, and Science and Technology, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), have held a scientific seminar on asbestos, a kind of mineral used in construction, and its deadly impact on workers’ lives.

The Germany-based Heart to Heart Foundation on July 16 donated ventilators to the Hospital for Women and Children of the central city of Da Nang, helping the infirmary better medical services for child patients.