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.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued Dispatch No. 116/CD-TTg, urging strengthened nationwide efforts to prevent and control dengue fever amid rising infections.

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.

The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), held the kick-off ceremony for a project titled "Strengthening capacity development system for health workers through telemedicine" in Ha Noi on July 8. The event was chaired by Prof. Dr. Tran Van Thuan, Deputy Minister of Health and Chairman of the National Medical Council.

On June 26 in Ha Noi, the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the , held a workshop titled “Contributing opinions on the draft law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Donation, Removal, Transplantation of Human Tissues and Organs, and Donation of Cadavers”.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long has requested the Ministry of Health to continue to resolutely deploy solutions directed by the Prime Minister to prevent, control, and handle counterfeit drugs, fake foods, and fake cosmetics.

The development of telemedicine was a key focus of a Viet Nam–Republic of Korea seminar jointly hosted by the Ministry of Health and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on June 26.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has proposed setting up a disease prevention fund within the draft Law on Disease Prevention.

The proposal, part of the draft Law on Administrative Sanctions in the Field of Population, aims to tighten enforcement and deter violations.

The Ministry of Health has asked the People's Committees of cities and provinces nationwide, the Pasteur Institute s and hygiene and epidemiology institutes to strengthen prevention and control of the Marburg virus disease.

Vietnam recorded an additional 320 COVID-19 cases on December 14, according to the Ministry of Health .

An additional 509 COVID-19 cases were reported in Vietnam on November 17, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health on October 3 announced the first case of monkeypox in Vietnam.