The General Statistics Office (GSO) has submitted to the Prime Minister a statistical project on how to measure the non-observed economy, including underground and illegal economic activities that affect the scale of the economy.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment has been tasked with compiling a project on measuring Vietnam’s non-observed economy (NOE), to be submitted to the Government in the first quarter of 2018, according to Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen The Phuong.
More than 70 hospitals nationwide that conduct kidney dialysis fail to follow proper procedures for liquid quality management and testing regulations, according to the Health Ministry.
The capital city of Hanoi will spend big on hospital development, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said at a meeting to celebrate the 62nd anniversary of the Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27) in Hanoi on February 23.
The health sector of Hanoi has built a monitoring system for early detection of epidemics across the locality as part of efforts to improve the city’s capacity to prevent and control diseases.
Living conditions of local residents in 79 rural communes across the
southernmost province of Ca Mau have been improved as a result of
projects carried out from 2010-2015.
The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong aims to help 99 percent of
its rural population have access to hygienic water by 2020, 73 percent
of which will use water that meets the Ministry of Health’s standards.
A two-month drive to improve rural water quality and environmental
hygiene in northern Ninh Binh province has yielded positive outcomes
following a wide range of activities.
Hanoi is calling for increased business involvement in the city’s rural
clean water supply and environmental sanitation projects as part of
efforts to help rural residents living access clean water.
A 6.28 million USD project to improve sanitation and hygiene in Bac
Giang, Thai Nguyen, Binh Dinh and Ben Tre provinces commenced in Hanoi
on January 16.
Nguyen Ngoc Anh and his associate Pham Duy Linh from Can Tho University
have invented a system that uses sunlight to desalinate water, and
successfully tested it in a house in the Mekong Delta province of
Ben Tre .
ADB on June 22 announced that it has
approved 60 million USD in loans to help Vietnam improve its health
services, particularly in poor, remote communities which lack skilled
workers and quality health facilities.
