An airline of Vietnam has suspended a pilot testing positive for ketamine, Deputy Director of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam Ho Minh Tan said on May 5.
Dr. Pham Xuan Dung, Director of Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital yesterday said that all medical examination and treatment activities of Oncology Hospital 2 in Thu Duc City have been officially operated.
The Ministry of Health has just sent an official dispatch to departments of health and hospitals on promoting the implementation of medical examination and treatment covered by health insurance with citizen identification cards (CICs) with chips.
Although the authorities handled violations many times, after a hiatus, the hospital brokers, mostly motorbike taxi drivers, have reappeared, luring patients to private clinics for medical examination. Even, the service to help patients receive medical examinations quickly without waiting in line still stealthily exists. The victims of hospital brokers are mostly sick people from other provinces and cities.
Ho Chi Minh City was approved to spend more than VNVD20,125 billion (US$872 million) on medical examination and treatment in 2022, according to a Decision No. 582/QD-TTg.
On April 8, the Vietnam Social Security announced that the National Children's Hospital was one of the first hospitals at the central level to accept chip-based citizen identification cards for medical examination and treatment covered by health insurance at the hospital.
Vietnamese drug watchdogs have just asked relevant agencies and establishments to stockpile enough medicine to prevent shortage during the Tet holidays ( the Lunar New Year).
Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen directed health care workers must pay regular visits to the Binh Dien market in District 8 for medical examination and supervision while relevant agencies, police, and military will help monitor strict implementation of regulations on Covid-19 epidemic control and prevention.
As digital transformation continues to bring positive results in medical examination, treatment and administrative management, hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City are pushing technological integration to accommodate an increasing number of patients.