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Despite the number of people covered by health insurance rising in Vietnam, the abuse of health services and the health insurance fund is still a challenge for the country.

Plans have been proposed to increase tax on tobacco, ban electronic vapes and tighten online advertising of cigarettes.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) on November 13 launched its public services portal, offering better public access to online administrative procedures.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) will amend the guidelines on diagnosis and treatment for dengue patients in a bid to improve the effectiveness of treatment and reduce the mortality rate caused by the disease.

Ensuring sufficient and sustainable finance for clinics at the commune level to provide health services in line with family medicine has an important role to play, said a health official.

The state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) started public hearings with stakeholders and local communities on July 13 so as to resume operations of two existing units of Mae Moh coal-fired power plant in Lampang province. ​

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is ready for the UN Day of Vesak 2019, set to place in the northern province of Ha Nam from May 12-14.

The healthcare sector closed the year 2018 with remarkable achievements, with various adjustments made to medical service prices improving public healthcare.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is drafting a circular on a pilot programme for electronic medical records in a bid to save time and money for both doctors and patients.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has sent a warning to provincial and city-level health departments, hospitals and health centres about the need to strengthen the monitoring of weather forecasts from the National Meteorological and Hydrological Forecast Centre and the implementation of medical examinations for people.

Officials from the Ministry of Health (MoH) is conducting field trips to 29 health stations in 10 provinces and cities’ communes and wards to survey activities, facilities, personnel and finance in an aim to improve the quality of health care services for local residents.

The Ministry of Health has proposed to the Government reducing or simplifying the number of administrative procedures in food safety management.

The Ministry of Health has asked 122 hospitals to interlink their medical exam results with each other in an effort to eliminate redundant examinations.

HCM City and Binh Duong, where the two latest Zika infection cases were detected, have been urged to take urgent measures to prevent the virus from spreading among the community.

A Singaporean senior official said on September 4 that the country’s Ministry of Health (MOH) is reviewing the regulation of isolating patients with high risk of Zika infection.

Vietnam is estimated to have 8.7 million people infected with hepatitis B while the number for hepatitis C are 1 million, according to the Ministry of Health’s Department for Preventive Medicine.

The health sector warned provinces and cities nationwide to be extra vigilant against dengue fever as risk of the return of the disease is high in rainy season, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) on May 15 launched a public communications campaign in order to encourage people to wash their hands more frequently as a way of minimising risk of catching diseases.

No case suspected of carrying Zika virus has been detected in District 7, HCM City, since a Republic of Korea (RoK) woman was found with Zika virus on her return home from the city.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) will continue maintaining a reasonably low birth rate nationwide, as well as taking measures to reduce the birth rate in rural and remote areas this year.