Bach Mai Hospital, Medical Excellence Japan (MEJ), and Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) on Jun 27 organized the 2nd Vietnam- Japan conference on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
According to the Ministry of Health, many scientific studies have shown a link between the consumption of sugary drinks and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), causing economic losses and disease burden.
The Ministry of Health and the World Bank in Vietnam held a workshop in Hanoi on March 27 to discuss the orientations for developing grassroots healthcare in the new context.
Although the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations in Ho Chi Minh City has decreased markedly, the southern metropolis still stays alert to acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants.
Nearly 1.6 million people, especially in remote areas, have benefited in the past decade from a healthcare program that offers access to affordable products and services.
In the near future, the Department of Health in Ho Chi Minh City and the city’s Social Security will coordinate to implement the World Health Organization's (WHO) Essential Intervention package on non-communicable diseases in primary health care activities in grassroots medical facilities (WHO PEN package), said Associate Professor Tang Chi Thuong, Director of the municipal Department of Health.
The Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Health in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday signed an agreement to improve the health sector’s management capacity.
‘Public-Private Partnership for sustainable healthcare transformation’ was the main topic of a conference organised by Dautu (Investment) newspaper in Hanoi on May 18.
Over the past time, the health care index of Vietnamese people has improved a lot, but still faces a heavy burden of disease and death, especially non-communicable diseases. Health experts say that our country is facing and solving a double burden of disease. While infectious diseases like Covid-19 are complicated, non-communicable diseases also tend to increase rapidly.
After three-year implementation of the project “For a healthy heart of community”, around 58 percent of residents aged over 40 have been screened for high blood pressure.
Lately, surgeons of the Hanoi-based 108 Military Central Hospital have performed weight loss surgery (also called bariatric surgery) to help very overweight people by removing part of the stomach and making their stomach much smaller than the original stomach.
Hospitals in Vietnam will provide gratis screening tests for patients with non-communicable diseases, said the Ministry of Health at a yesterday press brief.
Ho Chi Minh City authorities decided to continue activities to improve people’s awareness and exercise with the aim to improve city dwellers’ nutritional status and height, reduce non-communicable diseases and micronutrient deficiencies.
As per the Vietnam Medical Association's latest study, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are still heavy burden for the health sector. Moreover, they are by far the leading cause of death in the country.
