Vietnamese medics aid South Sudan with monkeypox
According to the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, soldiers from Vietnam’s Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 4 have trained and provided medical assistance to Level-1 field hospitals on the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of monkeypox in South Sudan. The programme seeks to prepare medical staff with fundamental information and epidemiological abilities...
Read moreHealth ministry: COVID-19 booster for 12-17-year-olds five months after last dosage
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has issued instructions for giving youngsters aged 12 to 17 the third COVID-19 vaccine dose/booster. According to an agreement prepared by Deputy Minister of Healthcare Nguyễn Thị Liên Hương and distributed to local healthcare departments, Pasteur institutes, and sanitation and epidemiological institutes, the booster would...
Read moreSouth, and central Vietnam saw more dengue fever cases
6,000 to 8,000 new dengue fever cases are reported each week in the South and Central regions of Vietnam. Health experts are worried as the dengue fever pandemic is peaking. More than 60,000 cases of dengue fever were reported by June 16, a 97% rise from the previous year. 80%...
Read moreMedical supply shortages affect hospitals and patients
Hanoi – Due to recent large violation cases, hospitals are reluctant to organize procurement bidding, causing a medical supply scarcity. Some patients have bought their own from outside sources. Nguyn Th Minh’s mother had hip replacement surgery after three days in the ER for a femoral neck fracture. Insufficient medical...
Read moreThe HCM City has started a new COVID-19 immunization programme
A month-long COVID-19 immunization campaign has been initiated by the HCM City Health Department. Booster injections (third and fourth doses) are recommended for those over 50, those over 18 who are moderately or seriously immune weakened, front-line health workers, and workers at industrial parks and export processing zones, according to...
Read moreCOVID-19 vaccination remains important
Vaccination is still important for COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control, even though most communes and wards are now low-risk. Over 1.12 million COVID-19 patients are still being monitored, including 53 severe cases. When summer diseases like dengue fever, hand-foot-mouth disease, acute hepatitis of unknown origin and monkeypox appear, the health...
Read moreThe US and Vietnam have inaugurated a liquid oxygen system at the Bach Mai Hospital
Hanoi On Sunday, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Vietnamese govt. and public healthcare officials welcomed the commencement of the implementation of a new liquid oxygen system donated by USAID. The Bach Mai oxygen system is the largest of thirteen identical systems provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...
Read moreThe COVID-19 recovery index ranks Vietnam stands at 14th position
The COVID-19 Recovery Index measures how well a country or area responds to illness, vaccination coverage, and socioeconomic mobility. The more resilient a country or region is, the higher its ranking. Low infection rates, low mortality, greater vaccine coverage, and fewer restrictions on movement characterise this score. In Nikkei’s May...
Read moreIn connection with the Covid test-kit scam, Vietnam’s health minister and the mayor of Hanoi have been arrested
The health minister and the mayor of Hanoi have been arrested on suspicion of being complicit in a $170 million coronavirus test-kit scandal, according to the public security ministry. The arrests come as the Communist government of Vietnam ramps up anti-corruption measures in the waken of the Viet A incident,...
Read moreDoctors have warned that now that borders have been reopened, there is a risk of ‘imported malaria’
Doctors at Hanoi’s Bch Mai Hospital are treating two malaria patients who recently returned from Angola. For years, Hanoi and the northern provinces have had virtually no malaria cases, making it difficult to discover, diagnose, and treat malaria patients who have returned from abroad. Nguyn nh Th., a 38-year-old Hà Tnh...
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