Doctors at the University Medical Centre in Ho Chi Minh City have successfully performed transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement on patients with congenital heart disease.
Chairman of Tokyo-based Sanno Medical Centre Takagi Kuninori on December 8 called on Ho Chi Minh City authorities to support the opening of its healthcare centre in the city.
Japan’s T-Matsuoka Medical Centre, the first of its kind in Vietnam, was inaugurated in Hanoi on September 1, marking a new milestone in Vietnamese and Japanese relations.
Standing Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on August 31 hosted a reception for Medical Representative of Japan’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Matsuoka Yoshinori, who is in Vietnam to prepare for the opening of T-Matsuoka Medical Centre in Hanoi.
Truong Sa town medical centre in the central province of Khanh Hoa’s Truong Sa island district said on November 10 that it has provided first aid for a fisherman from the central province of Quang Ngai, who met with an accident at sea a day earlier.
The Lotus Medical Centre, which was set up under a cooperative arrangement between Vietnam and Poland, has been licensed to conduct COVID-19 vaccinations in the European country.
The Ministry of Health’s anti-COVID-19 task force in the central city of Da Nang on the afternoon of September 3 reported the death of another COVID-19 patient, the 35th fatality in Vietnam.
Another COVID-19 patient with serious underlying health conditions in central Da Nang city has become the 30th death related to the coronavirus-caused disease in Vietnam, the Ministry of Health confirmed on August 27.
Five new imported cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on August 26 afternoon, raising the number of coronavirus infections in Vietnam to 1,034, according to the national steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control.
On August 1, Hoa Vang District Medical Centre in Thach Nham Dong village, Hoa Nhon commune, Hoa Vang district was turned into a field hospital for Covid-19 treatment.
The field hospital at Hoa Vang district’s medical centre is ready to serve COVID-19 infected patients from August 1 morning to share difficulties with the Da Nang Hospital which is being overloaded in the disease check-ups and treatment.
Eleven more patients were declared to have recovered from COVID-19 in the afternoon of April 2, according to the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, bringing the total number of patients given the all-clear in Vietnam to 75.
Although nursing involves high work pressure and stress, many nurses at health facilities throughout the country are reluctant to leave the profession.
Doctors at the HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy’s Medical Center have warned of an increasing incidence of stomach cancer among young people.
Two Vietnamese were killed and two other workers also from Vietnam were injured in an explosion that occurred at a chemical plant in Wonju city, the east of the Republic of Korea (RoK), on November 10.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on November 4 attended a ceremony to inaugurate the French medical centre in Ho Chi Minh City as part of his official visit to Vietnam from November 2-4.
The Hue Central Hospital and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s ASAN Medical Centre signed a cooperation agreement on regional- and international-level liver transplant programme in Hue city on October 16.
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