The central city of Da Nang should remain vigilant, and build detailed plans for COVID-19 prevention particularly when the Lunar New Year 2021 nears, Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong has said.
Chairman of the People’s Committee of the central province of Thua Thien – Hue Phan Ngoc Tho on December 4 asked for strict implementation of COVID-19 prevention and control measures in the locality during the new situation.
Vietnam hailed the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s initiative to set up the Facilitation Council of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) as it will help step up the development and equitable distribution of vaccines and technologies in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, said Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, head of the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the UN, WTO and other international organisations in Geneva.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, on July 24 urged all competent forces to remain vigilant and stand ready to cope with new developments of the pandemic.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the 73rd World Health Assembly which was held in the form of video conference on May 18-19 at the invitation of General Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
DW News, a German-based English-language news and information channel, has just published an article lauding Vietnam’s outcomes in its ‘war’ against the novel coronavirus.
Almost Vietnamese students pursuing their study at the National University of Laos in Vientiane have stayed calm and abided by health quarantine regulations rather than return to Vietnam in order to avoid creating a burden on the homeland’s medical system amid the COVID pandemic.
Ensuring sufficient and sustainable finance for clinics at the commune level to provide health services in line with family medicine has an important role to play, said a health official.
The biggest challenge facing the health sector lies with financial mechanisms for initial health care at the grassroots level, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has said.
About 81 percent of patients questioned said they are satisfied with medical services in Vietnam, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien cited an independent survey while delivering a speech at a United Nations meeting on September 23.
Conglomerate Vingroup’s pharmaceutical company VinFa on March 21 signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation with Switzerland-based DKSH, a market expansion services provider.
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.
Vinmec Medical System and the World Federation Of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) have signed an agreement to ensure the systems will conform to the Helsinki Declaration on patient safety in anaesthesiology.
A seminar discussing the role of family medicine in improving the quality of medical treatment was held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on March 29, with the participation over 300 domestic and foreign experts and doctors.
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