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.
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.
Today, AstraZeneca Vietnam Company and the Ministry of Health signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote joint programs in improving comprehensive health care for Vietnamese people.
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.
The HCMC Department of Health kicked off a program on improving healthcare capacity in the 2022-2025 period in Thanh An Island Commune in HCMC’s Can Gio District on November 18.
Ho Chi Minh City is considered one of the leading localities nationwide to implement digital transformation in the health sector. However, up to now, in addition to the achievements, the application of information technology and digital transformation towards building smart health of the city has not been as expected because of barriers including financial and human resource constraints.
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.
The Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City yesterday held a meeting with four young doctors who volunteered to register to participate in healthcare centers in the outlying district of Can Gio’s Thanh An island commune.
According to experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), the most effective and practical way to the implementation of palliative care and management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is to rely on the public health system.
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.
Around 5.3 millions of Vietnamese people or 8.6 percent of the country’s population have pre-diabetes, announced Chairman of the Vietnam Association of Diabetes and Endocrinology Tran Huu Dang.
