After merging with Soc Trang and Hau Giang, Can Tho faces new demands in improving the quality of primary healthcare.

On August 23 in Quang Ninh, the Ministry of Health held a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the Office’s traditional day (August 28, 1945 – August 28, 2025), paying tribute to the immense, enduring and silent contributions of generations of office staff in the health sector over the past 80 years.

Viet Duc Hospital announced the country’s first successful simultaneous lung and heart transplant, performed on a patient with multiple organ failure on August 13.

Many public healthcare programmes being implemented by the health sector show a strategic shift from treatment to healthcare, from passive to proactive, from fragmented to integrated and smart, with people placed at the centre.

While epidemics are still latent and diseases are appearing in increasingly frequency among younger people, the young are gradually joining the elderly in changing their mindset: visiting doctors while they are still healthy, getting early screening for diseases, and getting checked when there are no symptoms. Proactive healthcare is becoming a "smart lifestyle", when disease prevention is as important as treatment.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Rio de Janeiro on July 6 (local time), underscoring Viet Nam’s strong commitment to cooperating with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to protect public health.

The global movement to harness technology—particularly artificial intelligence—in improving human health is accelerating rapidly, especially in major and developed markets such as North America and Europe. Young Vietnamese entrepreneurs are increasingly joining this trend, helping to promote values rooted in compassion and innovation.

The 30th Vietnam International Medical and Pharmaceutical Exhibition ( Medipharm Expo 2023 ) will take place in Hanoi from May 10-13 with the participation of 350 domestic and foreign enterprises, the event's organisers have announced.