At Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi, relatives of patients shiver with every gust of wind, even under their thick blankets. The recent chill is making their time as hospital visitors even more difficult.
The Prime Minister has approved investment policy for a health cooperation programme with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the fiscal year 2018-2019.
A delegation of Hanoi officials led by Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai laid wreaths at the B52 victory monument at Hanoi’s Kham Thien street on December 26 to commemorate those who lost their lives during the US airstrike in December 1972.
A requiem was held at the B52 victory monument in Hanoi’s Kham Thien street on December 22 to pray for victims and soldiers who lost their lives during the US airstrike in December 1972.
Documents, photographs and memorabilia of American prisoners of war went on show at Tim Lai Ky Uc (Finding Memories) in Hoa Lo Prison on November 29 and will run until February, 2018.
The first cold spell of winter in the northern region has brought with it an increase in sicknesses like measles, mumps, flu and chicken pox, local reports say.
The over-prescription of antibiotics caused a common gastrointestinal bacteria to develop antibiotic resistance, experts said at a recent conference on digestion held by Bach Mai Hospital and the Japanese Nagoya University in Hanoi.
Doctors at HCM City’s Binh Dan Hospital have used a robot for the first time in the country for lung cancer surgery, removing suspicious nodules through a small incision instead of a large one and without using mechanical rib spreaders, unlike in the past.
As many as 209 children with disabilities in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son are expected to benefit from a six–day free operation programme that runs through July 29.
The level of fluoride residue found in water used for kidney dialysis in Hoa Binh General Hospital, where eight patients died recently, was high enough to cause fatalities, said medical experts.
Seven young doctors from the Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics and Bach Mai Hospital have been dispatched to work in impoverished districts in the northern mountainous provinces of Lao Cai, Bac Kan, Son La and Dien Bien.
Ten kidney patients receiving free treatment at Bach Mai Hospital Hanoi after a medical incident at Hoa Binh General Hospital have recovered and were discharged from the hospital on June 8.
Nguyen Thi Bich Nguyen, who was among 18 patient having suspected anaphylactic shock during their kidney dialysis at the General Hospital of Hoa Binh province, died on early June 4.
Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has asked the Health Department of northern Hoa Binh province to clarify the cause of a recent medical incident that killed seven kidney patients on May 29.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has requested mobilising all available resources to save 11 kidney patients who are receiving dialysis at the hospitals.
Half of all medicine used in Vietnam is locally manufactured, however, it has been largely unused in central hospitals, PhD Truong Quoc Cuong, Deputy Minister of Health, has said.
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