A hospital-medicine and pharmacy university will operate officially in
the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai at the end of this
year’s second quarter to meet the region’s growing demand for treatment.
Swift intervention measures will be taken to reduce the increasing rate
of chronic diseases and obesity among children in HCM City ,
according to a healthcare official.
A workshop was held in Hanoi on Feb.
25 to launch a United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) - funded
project for the treatment of drug use and health-related effects.
The 5th Forum on Hospitals opened in Hanoi on February 23 with over
120 delegates from international and domestic healthcare organisations
taking part.
Rare cancers like cancers of the gum, lips, gallbladder, vagina and
rectum have become more common in Vietnam in the last decade, according
to doctors.
Rubella had been on the rise in Hanoi over the past two months,
according to Nguyen Hong Ha, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Hospital
for Tropical Diseases.
The Italian Tuscany region’s Red Cross is to fund the training of three
paediatricians from Vietnam National Paediatricts’ Hospital as part
of a cooperation programme signed in Rome recently.
The Phuong Chau International
Gynaecology Hospital, the first int’l standard hospital in the Mekong
delta, was put into operation after two years of construction in Can Tho
City on Jan. 5.
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