As prenatal and newborn screening can reduce abnormalities by 95%, ensuring the health of infants, Vietnam is focusing on improving screening technologies to world standards, dedicated to improving the quality of health in the country’s population.
Level-2 Field Hospital No. 4 of Vietnam, which perform duties at the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in Bentiu, has inaugurated an obstetrics clinic, according to the Vietnam Department for Peacekeeping Operations.
The Quang Ninh Obstetrics and Paediatrics Hospital in Quang Ninh province became the first hospital in Northern Vietnam to be recognised as a Centre of Excellence for Breastfeeding at a ceremony on July 28.
The central city of Da Nang has proposed a plan of developing seven high-quality health care service projects with an estimated fund of 13.6 trillion VND (591 million USD) from the state budget, the city’s planning and investment department said.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued an urgent notice to trace all people who had close contact with the 243rd COVID-19 patient, a 47-year-old man, from Hanoi’s Me Linh district.
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh made a field trip to the obstetrics-paediatrics hospital of Ca Mau province on February 27 as part of her working visit to the southernmost locality.
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with Alive & Thrive on August 26 announced two hospitals as Centres of Excellence for Breastfeeding, including Tran Van Thoi Hospital in southern Ca Mau province and Can Tho Gynaecology and Obstetrics Hospital in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.
Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) Dao Ngoc Dung visited and presented gifts to disadvantaged children at the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Xa Dan secondary school in Hanoi on May 9 on the occasion of the National Action Month for Children.
Four hospitals in Vietnam have sent delegates to attend the 9th Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE 2019) in China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from May 2-5.
The HCM City Department of Health on March 28 instructed the top public obstetrics and paediatrics hospitals to expand the training they provide doctors at lower-level health facilities including private hospitals.
The Obstetrics-Paediatrics Hospital of the central province of Nghe An on October 20 inaugurated a prenatal-newborn screening centre, which will serve the north central region.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) is drafting a circular on a pilot programme for electronic medical records in a bid to save time and money for both doctors and patients.
Vietnam’s infertility rate currently stands at about 8 percent of couples, experts say, indicating that infertility is a major task for the obstetrics and gynecology sector in the country.
The Vietnam Gynaecology and Obstetrics Association and Can Tho Gynaecology and Obstetrics Hospital held the third conference in the field with nearly 500 leading professors and doctors taking part.
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