The Thai Ministry of Public Health has joined hands with relevant units to install 100 automated blood pressure monitors in public places so people can check their blood pressure and assess their condition themselves.
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) of the UK unveiled new, fully automated continuous manufacturing facilities worth a total of 130 million SGD (95.61 million USD) in Singapore on July 5.
An expert has recommended people take regular check-ups to detect kidney-related diseases as an estimated 5 million people in Vietnam suffer from kidney issues, and the number rises by about 8,000 each year.
After receiving dialysis treatment on July 20 at Binh Chieu Ward Health Centre, a 32-year-old patient said he was relieved that he no longer had to visit a district hospital in HCM City.
Many patients with severe kidney disease living in cities in the south often have to travel to HCM City for medical treatment, but with another kind of dialysis method now available in Vietnam.
Binh Dan Hospital, the first hospital in the country to offer dialysis, has opened a nephrology and hemodialysis ward to meet the treatment demand of patients with chronic kidney disease.
Doctors at hospitals in HCM City and Hue this week conducted six
successful organ transplant operations, saving the lives of four people
and restoring the sight of two severely visually-impaired patients.
Demand for body organs for life-saving transplants in Vietnam is high
but supplies are low. This is because hundreds of people with terminal
ailments - or their relatives - refuse to agree to donate vital body
parts, such as heart, kidneys or liver.
Pham Quy Duong, Vietnam's first opera singer and the first vocal
coach at the Vietnam National Academy of Music, died on June 28 of a
kidney disease. He was 75.
Doctors of Ho Chi Minh City’s Children Hospital No.2 have successfully
performed the kidney transplantation on an eleven-year-old boy, Nguyen
Van G, from the southern province of Binh Phuoc.
The Health Ministry’s Department for
Preventive Medicine and the Environment, on November 3 confirmed one
more A/H1N1 flu-related fatality in Hanoi, bringing the total number of
deaths from the disease in Vietnam so far to 37.
Vietnam ’s Health Ministry has not yet confirmed a tenth death
from the A/H1N1 flu although the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute’s
test has shown the victim was positive to the virus.
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