Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 28 visited and presented gifts to children with disadvantaged backgrounds being treated at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on September 29 this year.
According to a WHO report, Vietnam is currently ranked 11th among 30 countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
The People's Committee of Hanoi on August 15 issued a document requesting all relevant units to remain vigilant and continue strictly adhering to directives of the Government and the Prime Minister in controlling dengue fever in the context of the increasing number of cases in the locality.
Since November 2022 in Vietnam, simultaneous screening has been implemented for respiratory diseases including tuberculosis (TB), COVID-19, influenza A, B, syncytial virus and group-A streptococcus.
COVID-19 patients will not be given free treatment when the disease is downgraded from its current placement in Class A infectious diseases to Class B, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong.
In order to provide official information for blood cancer patients across the country, as well as to build a bridge to connect and share experiences among patients, caregivers, and medical staff about this disease, Takeda Vietnam continues to partner with the Bright Future Fund through the club “Bright Future – Accompanying Patients with Hematopoietic Cancer.”
Amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases in Singapore, with reported infections at a fairly high level, the number of hospitalised patients and those requiring intensive care in the island state has sharply increased over the past two months.
Ho Chi Minh City Health Department has asked local hospitals to stand ready to receive COVID-19 patients in necessary circumstances, amid the rising number of infections.
Up to 70% of the tuberculosis (TB) patients are of the working age group, which has affected both households’ economic well-being and the national economy, Health Deputy Minister Tran Van Thuan told a workshop in Hanoi on March 24.
Since 2018, the Haemodialysis Care Project between Vietnamese and Singaporean partners has worked to improve the overall quality of care for more than 2,500 renal patients in the northern region.
It is noteworthy that 78% of people living with rare diseases feel stress and 70% of patients’ parents lose jobs after their children are diagnosed with these diseases.
Doctors from Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City and Viet Duc University Hospital in Hanoi have worked together to conduct several organ transplants donated from a single donor.
Hospitals across Vietnam conducted 19,435 surgeries during the seven-day Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, up 11.4% from the same period last year, reported the Health Ministry’s Department of Medical Service Administration.
A project on the research and application of advanced techniques in respiratory disease diagnosis and treatment has received the Ho Chi Minh award. The project was carried out by associate professor Nguyen Viet Nhung, director of the National Lung Hospital and 22 co-authors.
Ambassadors and Chargé d'affaires to Vietnam of the G4 countries, namely New Zealand, Canada, Norway and Switzerland, recently visited Village Chance - a complex of schools and apartments for the disabled, poor and orphaned children, in Ho Chi Minh City ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
The Prime Minister has asked the Ministry of Health to continue keeping a close eye on the domestic and international pandemic situation in to strengthen the pandemic prevention and control measures during trade and tourism activities in the festive festival in the first months of 2023 and continue to promote the socio-economic development.
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