Public health

Vietnam’s first online drug bank was officially launched on August 12 by the Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health at www.drugbank.vn, with the goal of offering a database to support drug management in the country. Aiming to facilitate the development of pharmaceutical companies ...

A research group from the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City has completed their research into a vaccine against dengue fever, which is awaiting approval from an ethics council before being put into use. The research was sponsored by Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of ...

The Ministry of Health is set to amend the Law on Health Examination and Treatment, including provisions on issue of certificates for medical practice. The law came into effect in 2011 and now needs to be amended because certain provisions have failed to meet requirements, Dr ...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the US-based pharmaceutical company Merc Sharp & Dohme (MSD) will join hands to support the Ministry of Health to roll out the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme in Vietnam from 2019 – 2021. An agreement to this effect was ...

Vietnamese hospitals are teeming with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the chances of infection rise with a patient’s length of stay, a study found. The study concluded that there was an epidemic spread of multiresistant intestinal bacteria in Vietnamese hospitals with rapid transmission to patients.The rise of antibiotic-resistant ...

By June 2016, about 89.6% of the country’s population had joined the health insurance; exceeding the target assigned by the Prime Minister in Decision No.1167/QD-TTg (health insurance covers 88.1% of Vietnam population by 2019). Notably, many countries with social and economic conditions similar to Vietnam, ...

Measures to accelerate the implementation of electronic medical records (EMR) in health facilities nationwide were sought during a seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 17.  The event was co-organised by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Representative of the ...

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on June 20 approved an 80-million-USD loan to help Vietnam improve basic health service quality and access, especially in disadvantaged areas. The Investing and Innovating for Grassroots Health Service Delivery Project is designed to enable commune health stations (CHS) ...

The public health insurance fund paid more than half a million US dollars for treatment of just a single patient over three years. The payment marked a record amount that public health insurance fund has ever covered for an individual’s medical treatment since the early 1990s ...

The Ministry of Health (MoH) on June 11 hosted an online conference connecting over 700 venues in all 63 provinces and cities nationwide, aimed at updating specific technical measures to monitor epidemics, provide treatment and emergency regimens and handle complications after vaccinations.At the conference, delegates ...