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.
Vietnam is striving to develop the pharmaceutical industry to level 4, the highest as classified by the World Health Organisation, according to the National Strategy for Pharmaceutical Industry Development by 2023, with a vision toward 2045.
The Central Lung Hospital and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on November 30 launched the upgraded Vietnam Tuberculosis (TB) information management electronic system (Vitimes).
The second campaign in 2023 to give free vitamin A supplements to children from 6-35 months nationwide will take place from December 1, heard a meeting on November 28.
City International Hospital and Gia An 115 Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have become the first two in Vietnam to receive the accreditation from the American Accreditation Commission International (AACI), one of the world’s most prestigious healthcare accreditation organisations.
With valuable scientific research and experience shared at the Union World Conference on Lung Health 2023 that took place in Paris on November 15-18, Vietnam demonstrated its strong commitment to tuberculosis (TB) prevention, according to Director of the National Lung Hospital Dinh Van Luong.
Vietnam and international healthcare research partners convened a two-day conference on November 20 to launch the country’s national strategy on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) prevention and control for 2023-2030, as part of activities responding to the ongoing World AMR Awareness Week.
The People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on November 14 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with AstraZeneca Vietnam Co. Ltd. on cooperation in innovation in the healthcare sector.
The National Action Month for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control 2023 will be held from November 10 to December 10 with a wide range of activities, aiming to mobilise the involvement of leaders, policy makers, service providers and the community in HIV/AIDS prevention and control as well as increase support for people living with HIV, an official has said.
The Vietnam Military - Civil Medicine Association, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH)’s Health Strategy and Policy Institute and the Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute of Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology, held an international conference on digital health on November 8.
More than 6,000 cancer patients have been provided with treatment drugs with a total value of 1.6 trillion VND (nearly 66 million USD) from 2019 to the end of August 2023, heard a conference held by the Ministry of Health in Hanoi on November 8.
An international conference on digital healthcare is taking place in Hanoi with a view to enhancing Vietnam - Australia cooperation in the health system development and health security.