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Many hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City are carrying out programmes to help their patients enjoy the Lunar New Year season, or Tet, which falls on January 25.

At the pharmacy in Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 3, staff use paper bags to pack medicine instead of plastic.

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

The Ministry of Health has chosen three hospitals to pilot the IBM Watson for Oncology, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven clinical decision support system.

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.

The number of bids for medicine and medical equipment has risen dramatically in Ho Chi Minh City, according to the city’s Health Department.

The Party Committee of Ho Chi Minh City held a ceremony on May 15 to honour local role models in the campaign of studying Ho Chi Minh ideology and following the late President’s moral example on the occasion of his 128th birthday (May 19).

A nine month shortage of Glivec cancer medicine produced by the Novartis Pharma Service – AG Company (Switzerland) has eased for hundreds of patients following a Government move to allow hospitals to stock the pharmaceutical product using old import dossiers.

By 2020, HCM City’s public hospitals will no longer be overloaded and people will have access to high-quality health care, municipal officials promise.

The number of cervical cancer cases in Vietnam has fallen by half in the last 30 years thanks to a nationwide network of health facilities providing gynaecology screening.

Immunotherapy, which strengthens the immune system, enabling it to detect cancerous cells more effectively, promises new hope for cancer patients, health experts said.