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The first phase of a hi-tech healthcare complex, expected to cost more than 1 billion USD, kicked off in Hanoi’s outskirt Dong Anh district on October 14.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is reaching its peak season in HCM City, with incidence doubling last month from August, according to the city Preventive Medicine Centre.

The Vietnam - Cambodia Friendship Association of former volunteer soldiers of Front 479 held a ceremony in Hanoi on September 22 to mark 30 years of the fulfillment of their international mission in Cambodia.

Vietnamese singer Pham Hai Trieu has been living in Japan for nearly 20 years before he freshly decided to launch his first community music project titled “The reason I come to this life”.

The prices of about 1,900 different services offered at public hospitals have increased from August 20, according to the Ministry of Health.

Thailand’s Deputy Agriculture Minister Mananya Thaiseth on August 9 ordered the Department of Agriculture to put the brakes on licence extensions for hazardous farm chemicals, and vowed to ban three substances by the end of this year.

Vietnam will receive cancer vaccines from Japan in the near future, Prof Dr Ta Thanh Van, Rector of the Hanoi Medical University (HMU) told Lao Dong newspaper.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc awarded third-class Independence Order to K Hospital, Vietnam’s leading cancer hospital, during a ceremony in Hanoi on July 18 celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Vietnamese enterprises are set to take part in the Vibrant Goa Global Expo and Summit to be held in October in Goa, India, delegates have told a seminar to introduce the event in Ho Chi Minh City.

The public health insurance fund paid more than half a million US dollars for treatment of just a single patient over three years.

The first breast milk bank in the south of Vietnam became operational at the Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City on April 10.

Children under 16 years of age in the northern province of Nam Dinh will get free heart checks on April 6-7 within the framework of an annual programme jointly implemented by the Nam Dinh Children’s Hospital, the Central Children’s Hospital, and the military communications group Viettel.

Over 83.6 million people across Vietnam have participated in health insurance so far, bringing the health insurance coverage to 88 percent of the national population, heard a conference on March 26.

Vietnamese maritime search and rescue force on March 22 picked up a sick crewman onboard a Greek vessel in Vietnamese waters and took him to the central city of Da Nang for treatment.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam affirmed that increasing autonomy for hospitals is an important policy, but the work should not mislead public hospitals to operate for profit.

According to statistics, Vietnamese people spend over 2 billion USD each year on medical treatments and interventions overseas, meanwhile domestic healthcare services have been attracting expats.

Healthcare services that are popular for foreigners living in Vietnam and overseas Vietnamese, including orthodontic treatment, cardiovascular intervention, cosmetics surgery and some other surgeries.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 26 applauded silent contributions of doctors and health workers from central to grassroots levels to public health care on the occasion of Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27).

Vietnamese search and rescue vessel SAR27-01 arrived at Nha Trang port, the central province of Khanh Hoa, on January 28, bringing a US cruise tourist ashore for medical treatment.

A working delegation of Laos’ Sekong province paid a visit to the central border province of Quang Nam on January 24 ahead of Vietnam’s traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.