Health

Real estate and entertainment firm Sun Group has just inaugurated ‘Benh vien Mat Troi’ Sun Group International Hospital - the most modern international hospital in Vietnam. This is the first hospital of the high-quality SunGroup Healthcare system invested in and operated by Sun Group. Two strong areas of the hospital are screening services and general health examination services of international standards.

A programme was held in the northern province of Bac Giang on June 11 to respond to "Hanh trinh Do" (Red Journey), the country’s largest-scale blood donation campaign.

Deputy General Director of Vietnam Social Security (VSS) Nguyen Duc Hoa, had a working session on June 10, with the World Health Organization (WHO) delegation, led by Dr Angela Pratt - the WHO Representative in Vietnam, aiming to strengthen cooperation in the field of health insurance.

More than 600 yoga instructors, practitioners, and enthusiasts from Binh Thuan and neighboring localities gathered in the central province’s Phan Thiet city on June 9 morning for a large-scale yoga performance celebrating the 10th International Day of Yoga.

Sala — a humanitarian organisation led by Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Manh Khanh, Deputy Director of Viet Duc Hospital — coordinated with the Ha Giang Provincial Department of Health and Ha Giang Provincial General Hospital to provide free surgeries for disadvantaged people suffering from orthopaedic and mobility-related disabilities from June 4-7.

In a move to raise awareness of organ donation, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has registered as a donor himself, calling on all Vietnamese citizens to follow suit.

A wide range of activities are being held within the framework of a communication programme entitled ‘Vietnamese youth say no to cigarettes and e-cigarettes’.

A delegation of the Ministry of Health led by Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Lien Huong is attending the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA77) which is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, from May 28 to June 1.

Health Minister Dao Hong Lan and Chief Representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) – Vietnam Office Sugano Yuichi on May 28 signed an agreement on grant worth 300 billion VND (11.78 million USD) for a project on improving medical equipment at National Cancer Hospital in Hanoi.

Tobacco is a burden on society with a total cost of medical examination, treatment, illness, and death of 108 trillion VND (4.24 billion USD) a year, Health Minister Dao Hong Lan told a meeting in Hanoi on May 26 to respond to World No Tobacco Day 2024 (May 31) and National No-Tobacco Week from May 25-31.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 19 called on all Vietnamese adults, regardless of gender, ethnic groups, religion, or region, to register as an organ donor.

The Suc Khoe va Doi Song (Health and Life) Newspaper and the Drug Administration of Vietnam (the Ministry of Health) co-organised a ceremony at the Hanoi Opera House on May 17, to honour outstanding medicinal businesses and medicinal products.

The Government has ordered harsh punishments on any violation of vessel-monitoring-system (VMS) rules in a move to get the European Commission (EC)’s “yellow card” against the Vietnamese seafood products for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing lifted.

Facing an unpredictable global COVID-19 situation with new sub-variants continuing to emerge, Vietnam's Ministry of Health has issued updated guidance on COVID-19 vaccinations to bolster immunity, especially for high-risk groups.

On the evening of May 17, the Ministry of Health will organise a ceremony at the Hanoi Opera House to honour 18 outstanding medicinal businesses and 68 medicinal products.

Vietnam hopes to get further support from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to restructure and consolidate its preventive healthcare system, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha said on May 13.

As many as 2,500 young workers in Da Nang received free medical examination, treatment, and medicines on May 12, within the framework of the “Youth Workers’ Day- Spreading positive energy.”

In a directive issued on May 10, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh instructed the ministries of health and finance to address challenges hindering the export of medicinal plants.

Hanoi-based E Hospital, in coordination with Operation Smile Vietnam, will provide free examinations, treatment and surgeries for people with cleft lips, palates, and other facial deformities from May 6.

Ho Chi Minh City's tourism industry is making efforts to renew and build many attractive tourism products, thus diversifying periodic and regular events to enhance the experience for tourists. Specifically, medical tourism products are focusing on investment to gradually improve towards attracting domestic and foreign tourists.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 1 signed a dispatch demanding prompt actions to deal with the consequences of a serious workplace accident that happened in a wood factory in southern province of Dong Nai earlier the same day, as well as to support victims.

Vietnam has eliminated malaria in 46 provinces and centrally-run cities as of the end of last year, and is determined to eradicate the disease by 2030, according to official data.

Millions of children in Vietnam have been protected by immunisation over the past 40 years, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF offices in Vietnam on April 25 when they mark the World Immunisation Week from April 24-30.

The International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) Training Centre under the Ministry of National Defence’s Military Hospital 175 officially made its debut in Hanoi on April 15.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on April 8 requested the Ministry of Health to work with the Vietnam Social Security and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to provide health insurance coverage for all tuberculosis (TB) patients.

Turning down a stable life in Japan and enticing offers from big hospitals, Japanese Professor, Doctor Hattori Tadashi has decided to pursue his own journey to bring light to tens of thousands of underprivileged people in Vietnam.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh recently ordered efforts to be exerted to enhance the tuberculosis (TB) prevention and control efforts.

Responding to World Tuberculosis Day (March 24), Vietnam chose the theme ‘Yes! Vietnam can end tuberculosis’, as a reply affirming the country’s efforts and highest determination in TB prevention while asserting that the goal of ending tuberculosis in Vietnam is completely possible.

Vietnam is one of seven countries selected by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to conduct research on the M72 tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, given the fact that they have a high tuberculosis burden, according to Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Binh Hoa, Deputy Director of the Central Lung Hospital and deputy head of the Executive Board of the National TB Programme.

The Critical Diseases Research and Treatment Institute (Radiner) of Vietnam and Saidal Group - an Algerian pharmaceutical company - have signed a cooperation agreement, opening up cooperation potential in the healthcare sector between the two countries.