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Besides modern medical techniques and equipment, traditional medicines are used to assist COVID-19 treatment in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Health inaugurated a centre for telehealth diagnosis and consultation services (Telehealth) at Thong Nhat Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City on April 7 as part of activities in the framework of the remote medical examination and treatment project for the 2020-2025 period.

The Nhan Dan 115 Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has set three Asian records in developing and applying new medical techniques.

The Hanoi Oncology Hospital, the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Seongnam city and Bundang Jesaeng hospital under the Daejin Medical Fund will work together in training international medical experts following a memorandum of understanding signed in Hanoi on July 17.

Hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City districts have shared knowledge about advanced medical techniques in an aim to offer treatment normally provided to patients admitted to city-level or central-level hospitals, under requirements of the city’s Department of Health.

The Ministry of Health has announced the top ten events of Vietnam’s medical sector in 2017 as follows:

The Ministry of Health will soon spell out what medicines and medical techniques should be used by ward- and commune-level health centres around the country to make the family medicine model more efficient and reassure patients.

French experts are willing to assist the General Hospital of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho in applying advanced medical techniques.

Public health facilities in HCM City will be under pressure to improve their quality of services as they will no longer receive city funds for regular expenditures.

Hanoi’s health sector has focused on developing high-quality medical techniques over the last five years and made significant progress.

A Ministry of Health’s plan to build additional satellite hospitals across the nation and upgrade existing ones lacks money and qualified personnel, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has said.