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The expansion of remote medical examination and treatment has helped both patients and healthcare workers, especially in mountainous and remote areas, access advanced techniques.

Grassroots telemedicine solution using 4.0 technology has helped address geographical distance, enabling commune health staff in mountainous areas to seek consultation from their colleagues at the district and higher levels.

The KT group, the Republic of Korea’s largest telecommunications company, announced on April 13 its plan to launch a telemedicine service in Vietnam with Hanoi Medical University this year.

The National Agency of Drug and Food Control (BPOM) of Indonesia has issued clinical trial protocol permit for the Merah Putih COVID-19 vaccine produced domestically by Airlangga University and a private pharmaceutical firm.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has affirmed that the telemedicine system, which is connected to all hospitals at the district level, will help save more patients’ lives, reduce the overload on upper-level hospitals, and limit the transmission of virus.

Equipped with modern equipment and skilled medical workers, the health centre of Truong Sa township in the island district of Truong Sa, central Khanh Hoa province, has become a source of support for local residents and military personnel as well as fishermen working at sea.

The Vietnam Telemedicine Centre for COVID-19 Outbreak Control made debut at a ceremony in Hanoi on March 5 in the context that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is causing grave concern around the world.

Singapore has passed the Healthcare Services Bill to replace the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act that was enacted four decades ago.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health has sped up the process of building a database and adopting IT as instructed by the municipal Party Committee.

A satellite hospital project has helped reduce patient overloads at hospitals, especially at central-level facilities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, in its five years of implementation, heard a conference in Hanoi on November 15.

A ceremony to transfer the telemedicine system to Hospital 103 of the Lao People’s Army took place in Vientiane, Laos, on July 24.

The Defence Ministry’s Military Hospital 175 handed over telemedicine equipment to the Cambodian Royal Army’s Hospital 179 on February 9.

Doctors at the Gia Dinh People’s Hospital in HCM City on May 25 offered specialty consultation to doctors at the Cu Chi District Hospital through a video link.

A telemedicine I.T. system was presented to the Lao army’s Hospital 103 in Vientiane on April 22 as a support from the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence.