The Red Journey voluntary blood donation campaign was held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on July 14, attract a large number of youth union members, young people, members of armed forces and teachers.
The Hue Central Hospital in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on June 3 received five corneas from the United States for transplants.
During 2018, three furious races like that were conducted at Hue Central Hospital in Thua Thien-Hue province. In all the races, doctors won.
Sixty-two people with cleft palate in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue and surrounding localities received free check-ups and surgeries from February 18-28.
Free rides home were given to workers at Nomura industrial park in An Duong district in the northern port city of Hai Phong on February 2 ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh visited and presented gifts to social policy beneficiaries, poor households and students in Thap Muoi and Cao Lanh districts in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on February 2.
The family of a 27-year-old man in Hanoi, who was declared brain dead in a traffic accident, has voluntarily donated all of his internal organs as well as his corneas and tissues to patients needing replacement, according to the Vietnam National Coordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplantation.
People with disabilities in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue are to receive better healthcare under the project “Raising Voices, Creating Opportunities” funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) via the Action to the Community Development Centre (ACDC).
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue on November 29 received Laos’ Labour Order, first class, in recognition of the Vietnamese locality’s contributions to solidarity, friendship and comprehensive between the two countries.
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.
Two people were killed and five others were injured in a car crash in Phalanxay district, Savannakhet province of Laos on June 21, said the Vietnamese Consulate General in Laos.
The Bank for Investment and Development (BIDV) will donate 1 billion VND (43,700 USD) to activities within the framework of the Hue Festival 2018, becoming the bronze sponsor for the event.
The Hue Central Hospital has attached much importance to its cooperation with the health sector of Lao border provinces, said vice director of the hospital Hoang Thi Lan Huong.
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.
The Asian Endoscopic Ultrasound Group and Vietnam Federation for Digestive Endoscopy held a training course on November 22-23 at the Hue Central Hospital to improve knowledge and skills for 30 doctors from general hospitals in the central region.
Nearly 1,000 people registered to donate their tissue and organs at a health festival that took place in the northern province of Nam Dinh on November 17.
The Hue Central Hospital has so far delivered 1,000 babies conceived via in vitro fertilisation (IVF) after 10 years of practising the technique.
A ceremony was held in Ho Chi Minh City on October 15 to launch the campaign entitled “Screening for breast cancer at the age of 40”.
