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A pilot programme on national hospital quality assessment has resulted in positive results, but a gap between policy objectives and operations still exists, hospital officials have said.

A Vietnamese woman, 40, was diagnosed with Zika virus while travelling in Japan, according to the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Vietnamese Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika, all of whom were residents or workers in the Aljunied Crescent and Sims Drive area.

Public hospital services and products in 16 provinces and cities have become 18 percent more expensive since the middle of August, as patients pay for health staff’s basic salaries.

A team from the Ministry of Health on August 5 inspected dengue fever prevention efforts in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, which is a hotbed of the mosquito-borne disease at present.

The Ministry of Health has established eight inspection teams to supervise and assist dengue-fever prevention activities in 18 localities suffering the most from dengue fever throughout the country.

The Health Ministry has taken stronger preventive measures against the Zika virus across the country, particularly in central Phu Yen province where a local man recently tested positive for the virus.

Officials from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Lao Ministry of Health went to Xieng Khouang province to investigate a “mystery disease” that has affected hundreds of people.

The Ministry of Health sought to expand the family doctor model across the country during a video conference in Hanoi on July 15.

A medical technique building was unveiled at the Thai Nguyen National General Hospital in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on July 3.

The Ministry of Health has approved the inclusion of several more hospitals to the ‘Satellite Hospitals’ project in the period of 2016-2020, as heard a conference on implementing the project in Hanoi.

The Prime Minister has assigned the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to promptly make a list of underprivileged coastal and island communes which are subjects to free health insurance.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) warned on May 18 that yellow fever, a dangerous infectious disease, may appear in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) and National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore reported the first imported case of Zika virus on May 13.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has introduced several new vaccines in the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation in an effort to improve the efficiency of disease prevention.

The civil-military health centres have significantly helped improve health service at border areas and islands and should be maintained in the coming time, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has said.

The Ministry of Health encouraged consumers to detect and denounce food safety violations to tackle unhygienic products.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has included a number of new vaccines in the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation as part of efforts to improve the efficiency of disease prevention.

Updated information on the latest development of Zika virus and response measures suitable with the situation was the focus of a meeting of the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC).

Vietnam is currently free of Zika virus cases, but preventative measures are ongoing to prevent possible outbreaks in the future, the Department of Preventive Medicine said on April 26.