The Vietnamese Government should intervene to reduce the rate of caesarean section deliveries, which has been rising in the country, an international expert has said.
Vietnam is expected to produce six-in-one vaccines in 2017 or 2018 and by 2020 these will be used widely in the country, according to the Ministry of Health.
Vaccines against pneumonia, diarrhoea and the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer will be added to the national immunisation programme, with support from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunis
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has introduced several new vaccines in the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation in an effort to improve the efficiency of disease prevention.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has included a number of new vaccines in the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation as part of efforts to improve the efficiency of disease prevention.
Duong Thi Hong, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, spoke to Vietnam News Agency about the success of the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation.
The Ministry of Health issued a public warning on December 21 regarding the so-called imported vaccine, whose origin and quality it was not able to verify.
The Prime Minister has asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to distribute free vaccines and de-contaminant chemicals from the national reserves to two localities.
The Inter-Governmental Committee for Economic, Commercial, Scientific and Technological Cooperation between Vietnam and Cuba commenced its 33rd session in Hanoi on November 16.
Tran Dac Phu, Director of the Preventive Medicine Department, speaks to Vietnam News Agency about the quality of vaccines under the national programme on immunisation.
People receiving vaccines through the free national immunisation programme will be compensated if the immunisation fails or causes serious side effects.
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