Public health
Development assistance for health sector
Health ministry proposes adverse event reporting system
The Ministry of Health has proposed a system to identify, report and categorise adverse events to prevent untoward incidents at medical facilities. According to the draft circular proposed by the ministry, the system will identify the types of incidents to determine their level of seriousness.Keep reading ...
P.H
Ministry to ensure adequate meningococcal vaccine in 2018
At least 100,000 doses of the meningococcal vaccine will be imported to Việt Nam by the end of May, increasing the number of imported doses to some 800,000 in 2018.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Local health station struggles burden nat’l system
Việt Nam’s grassroots healthcare system is failing to win public trust, resulting in overcrowding at provincial-level hospitals and hampering efforts to ensure universal health coverage in the country.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Việt Nam faces challenges applying stem cell therapy
Việt Nam is facing challenges keeping pace with other countries in the application of stem cell therapy, many doctors say. The therapy can help cure or even save the life of a patient if it is successful.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Indian vaccine to replace 5-in-1 Quinvaxem: Health ministry
The Ministry of Health said it would add three new types of vaccines for infants under the national expanded immunisation programme this year.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
MoH to replace five-in-one Qinvaxem vaccine in June
The Ministry of Health plans to replace the five-in-one Quinvaxem combination vaccine with other types of vaccines for infants beginning this June.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Anti-dengue mosquitoes released in mainland VN for the first time
Mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia – a type of bacteria with the potential to prevent the spread of dengue fever – were released in Vĩnh Lương Commune, in the central city of Nha Trang yesterday.This is the first time that these anti-dengue mosquitoes have been released in mainland Việt Nam, ...
New Hanoi Reporter
Vietnam cooperates with WHO to address health priority issues
The Prime Minister has approved investment policy for a health cooperation programme with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the fiscal year 2018-2019.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Red tape denies thousands in Vietnam access to sponsored cancer medication
Thousands of Vietnamese cancer patients who rely on state-run health insurance for their medication may have to abandon their treatment because of a recent government decree barring drugs that lack the required papers from being imported into the country. Though the drugs are available commercially, they ...
Tuoi Tre News Reporter
Programme provides health care to 6 million people
A community health care programme has provided free checkups, treatment and medicines to more than 6 million people in nearly 13,500 campaigns nationwide, heard a conference held in Hà Nội on Thursday to review its outcomes.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
