Health

The Prime Minister has directed the Ministry of Health to prepare a document for a declaration of an end to the Covid-19 epidemic in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Health urged to well monitor cases of skin anthrax in the Northern Province of Dien Bien to curb the spread of the dangerous disease.

Following an electrical cut, a father and two children decided to sleep in their car. As a result, one died later and two were hospitalized.

A doctor and several medical facilities received fines for falling foul of the present examination regulation.

The Ho Chi Minh City-based Children's Hospital 1 announced a death of a 5 year old child in Long An Province due to suspected hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD).

Health experts recommend that hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is at the peak of the first wave of the year and there have been many cases of severe complications.

The Children's Hospital No.2 in Ho Chi Minh City has just held a ceremony to celebrate the 45th anniversary of its establishment (June 1, 1978-2023).

Nearly 400,000 children aging from 6-35 months in Hanoi will receive vitamin A during a campaign from June 1 – 2, according to the municipal Department of Health.

Vietnam deliberates the downgrading of Covid-19 from its current placement in Class A infectious diseases down to Class B.

In recent years, medical facilities in Ho Chi Minh City have applied information technology in management, administration and patient care which has been contributing to significantly improving the city's healthcare sector.

Tobacco use is a major risk factor for respiratory infections and non-communicable diseases. Smoking is estimated to cause 60,000 cancer cases in Vietnam each year, Vice Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan emphasized at a yesterday workshop.

The health sector in Ho Chi Minh City has been paying attention to improvement of the grassroots healthcare quality with a high priority to preventive medicine and infrastructure.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is preparing for the establishment of 3-6 centers to reserve rare drugs after cases of foodborne botulism were reported.

Although it is usually a mild illness, chickenpox can have unusual symptoms and carries the risk of severe complications, including death, particularly in children and pregnant women.

Cho Ray Hospital yesterday informed that the health situation of the two patients who were siblings developed seriously after 14 days of hospitalization.

After more than one week of treatment at Gia Dinh People's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, a 45-year old patient with botulinum poisoning died before being injected with botulinum antidote.

As planned, surgeons of the Children's Hospital 2 will continue  performing liver transplants with the support of their peers from the University Hospital of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City in June.

On May 23, in Ho Chi Minh City, the Ministry of Health organized a seminar to review the expanded vaccination campaign in 2022 and the plan for 2023 in the Southern region.

The Drug Administration of Vietnam said that the World Health Organization (WHO) is urgently contacting partners around the world to seek supplies of rare medicine to support Vietnam botulism poisoning cases.

Ho Chi Minh City is entering the rainy season when the dengue disease easily outbreaks.