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Ho Chi Minh City face a shortage of blood for medical treatment in the last two months of this year, according to Chairman of the city’s Red Cross Society Tran Truong Son.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has uploaded a list of 17 hospitals that are capable of receiving and treating stroke victims on its website.

The market for integrated circuits (IC) and semiconductors in Vietnam has huge potential, offering great investment opportunities for domestic and foreign enterprises, according to experts.

Four more hospitals have been asked to join the city's tuberculosis (TB) prevention programme and treat patients with the disease.

The public health insurance fund paid more than half a million US dollars for treatment of just a single patient over three years.

Although nursing involves high work pressure and stress, many nurses at health facilities throughout the country are reluctant to leave the profession.

Over 83.6 million people across Vietnam have participated in health insurance so far, bringing the health insurance coverage to 88 percent of the national population, heard a conference on March 26.

The Investigation Police Agency of the Mekong Delta province of Long An has decided to start criminal proceedings against a truck driver following a deadly crash on January 2 in Ben Luc district.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the US Robert Redfield signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in infection prevention and antibiotic resistance and infection surveillance related to medical care in Hanoi on December 12.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan presented the President’s first-class Labour Order to the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) in Japan at a ceremony on December 4.

First-grade hospitals in the country are undertaking many activities for standardisation and quality control of medical laboratories to be able to share medical test results with each other.

Child patients will be given priority in kidney transplants when there is a brain-dead or non-heart-beating donor under a new agreement on organ transplantation between three major hospitals in HCM City.

The Vietnam – Germany Hospital inaugurated a tissue bank, the first of its kind in Vietnam, on October 16.

The Hue Central Hospital and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s ASAN Medical Centre signed a cooperation agreement on regional- and international-level liver transplant programme in Hue city on October 16.

A health examination centre was put into operation at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City on October 14 as part of activities to mark the 45th anniversary of Vietnam-Japan diplomatic ties.

New Ministry of Health (MoH) regulations on cancer treatment for outpatients from other provinces is causing problems to hospitals and thousands of sufferers.

The Health Department in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh on August 9 announced that it has recorded a death caused by the swine flu A/H1N1.

Two more people in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern province of Tay Ninh have reportedly died from the swine flu virus A/H1N1, whose return last June has raised great public concern.

The number of people getting flu vaccines has risen in recent days following three deaths from swine flu (A/H1N1) in Ho Chi Minh City.

The A/H1N1 flu cases at Cho Ray hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have been put under control.