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Movie star, director and producer Ngo Thanh Van of HCM City has launched her latest project on a Vietnamese superhero.

Hanoi is set to mobilise 89 trillion VND (over 3.8 million USD) for implementing the national target programme on building new-style rural areas in 2021-2025.

The government calls October the “Action month for the Vietnamese Elderly” to inspire to elderly to live well and contribute to the nation.

The northern province of Vinh Phuc has paid due attention this year to training its medical personnel and improving systems in a coordinated manner, to meet the healthcare needs of local people.

Vietnam’s health care sector is stepping up the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve service quality.

Digitalisation will become an inevitable trend of the health sector, being a firm launching platform for a smart health sector, according to experts.

The Philippines logged 2,747 new COVID-19 cases on September 26, bringing the national count to 301,256, according to the country’s Department of Health.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on September 25 ordered promptly expanding remote medical services in order to complete the target of universal health coverage.

While the international community recognises and highly values the COVID-19 prevention and control outcomes in Vietnam, as well as the Government’s efforts to minimise the pandemic’s impact on vulnerable groups, guarantee people’s right to medical treatment, and ensure no one is left behind, the story of the 17th patient infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Vietnam published on The New Yorker on September 21 has encountered public backlash due to its lack of objectivity.

Many hospitals in HCM City are continuing to offer home-based medical examinations and treatment that began during the first COVID-19 outbreak.

The number of people suffering from kidney problems was increasing in Vietnam, and kidney failure had begun to harm more and more young people, doctors have said.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has recently decided to ease an overseas travel ban on the country’s nurses and other medical workers to allow more to take jobs abroad.

The Vietnamese Government's support for the local pharmaceutical industry will remain steadfast, according to Fitch Solutions.

A new photo exhibition opened on September 19 in Hanoi, revealing pictures of the country's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnamese leaders are expected to send important messages to the high-level week of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, slated for September 21-October 2.

Doctors from the Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital in Hanoi have successfully completed 23 organ transplants over the past 13 days, marking a significant step forward for multi-organ procedures conducted in the country.

Dengue fever cases dropped significantly in Vietnam during the first eight months of this year, but the country needed to remain vigilant as there were currently cases in 58 provinces and cities and the risk of a greater outbreak was extremely high, experts have said.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is implementing a remote medical examination and treatment project for 2020-2025, with the aim of sustainable development of the health sector.

Advances in treatment at hospitals nationwide have helped save more and more premature infants who are at high risk of mortality.

The development of children born from a "freeze-only" transfer is similar to and even better than those born from a "fresh embryo" transfer, according to a study conducted by Vietnamese researchers and published in the international journal Fertility and Sterility.