Ho Chi Minh City has decided to earmark around 138.5 billion VND (6.06 million USD) a year until 2025 to pay stipends to trainee doctors, nurses and others working at grassroots medical stations as an incentive to attract personnel.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested making quicker progress in vaccinations in his Conclusion at a recent teleconference with localities on COVID-19 prevention and control.
The People’s Committee of Hanoi has issued a document guiding COVID-19 prevention and control measures amid the rising number of infections in recent days.
Ho Chi Minh City has established eight temporary hospitals with nearly 300 beds each to treat moderately ill COVID-19 patients and people with underlying medical conditions as the number of COVID-19 cases rises, according to the municipal Department of Health.
The southern province of Binh Duong is striving to have 90 percent of its enterprises resume operations by the end of this month, and 100 percent by the end of this year.
Working at 300 percent of their capacity, medical workers, public servants and staff at local administrative agencies of Hanoi have made concerted efforts to carry out a massive COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the city with an aim to reach herd immunity against the pandemic soon.
The Ministry of Health on August 20 received 200 high-flow ventilators donated by the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) to support southern localities in treating COVID-19 patients.
Mobile medical stations will be established in the country's current largest COVID-19 hotspots of Ho Chi Minh City, Long An, Dong Nai and Binh Duong provinces, heard an online meeting on measures to stamp out the pandemic held on August 19 under the chair of Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long.
The Hanoi municipal Health Department on August 2 issued an urgent notice asking all local residents to immediately contact local medical authorities when showing one or more symptoms of coughing, high temperature, sore throat, breathing trouble, tiredness, reduction or lack of taste or smell.
Amidst complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Health has given out new recommendations and guidance to better control the outbreak.
The Ministry of Health kicked off a five-year project on developing district- and commune-level healthcare systems in 13 provinces nationwide at an online conference held on August 25.
Five months after the first COVID-19 infections were reported in Vietnam, the number of confirmed cases in the country reached 349 as of June 23 morning, with no new cases reported overnight.
Hanoi’s Department of Health has sent a document to medical stations and drugstores in the capital city to ensure they have enough medicine to prevent and treat dengue fever.
Hospitals from central to district levels across the country have been ordered to set up detailed plans on training and transferring professional techniques to commune-level medical stations.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien announced a set of measures to enhance the quality of health care services at commune-level medical stations during an event on July 16.
People deserve comprehensive healthcare at the commune-level medical stations even when they are not ill and for this to happen, the operation of these stations must to be standardised, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has stressed.
Early diagnosis, treatment and management of non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes at communal medical stations were updated at a training course workshop for lecturers major in the field held in Hanoi on June 11.
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