The Vietnamese Government has presented a batch of medicine for treatment of drug addiction worth 3 billion VND (133,530 USD) to Cambodia, aiming to support the country in its fight against drug.
The Ministry of Health issued a public warning on December 21 regarding the so-called imported vaccine, whose origin and quality it was not able to verify.
The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAVN) under the Ministry of Health launched online public services level 4 on November 26 to help pharmaceutical firms register drug and medicine prices.
The Ministry of Health has urged all hospitals to boost their application of information technology to improve medical examinations, treatment and management, ministry officials said.
The Preventive Medicine Department confirmed that risk of disease spreading across borders is very high as human infections with a new avian influenza A (H7N9) virus are being reported from China.
Around 49,000 doses of the 6-in-1 vaccine will be available in Vietnam in 2016, the Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) under the Ministry of Health said on November 12.
The biggest success of the Ministry of Health's provincial hospital development project was narrowing the gap on quality of treatment between central and lower-level hospitals.
The Ministry of Health has organised an online meeting on accelerating the application of information technology in the management of medical examination and treatment and health insurance payment.
The Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) under the Ministry of Health (MoH) has unveiled a plan to pilot the community-based HIV testing and counseling programme from 2015 to 2017.
Progress in controlling the mortality rate in small children has brought Vietnam come close to achieving the related Millennium Development Goal 4 on reducing child mortality.
The Pharmacy Law has helped strengthen State management over pharmacies and ensured the people’s right to quality medicine over its 10 years in existence, but now it needs to be updated.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) formed 10 working teams on September 28 to fight dengue fever, the incidence rate of which has risen above the same period last year, in 20 provinces and cities.
Vietnam has been proactive in taking measures and implementing programmes to prevent the spread of animal diseases to humans, an international conference heard.
The Health Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) under the Ministry of Health (MoH) ran a community-based health emergency response drill on August 14 in Hanoi to enhance its performance.
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