A workshop providing the press with information on the use of tobacco in Vietnam, challenges in minimizing tobacco use and solutions to them was held by the Ministry of Information and Communications in Hanoi on Wednesday.
The issuance of vaccine passports has been implemented for more than a month, but so far many people have not received vaccine passports; subsequently, they can’t go to other countries.
As many as 9.1 million Vietnamese people aged 15 and above were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of this year, Director of the Department of Population and Labour Statistics under the General Statistics Office (GSO) Pham Hoai Nam told a press conference on April 16.
Vietnamese people have longer lifespan but a few of them lead a healthy life, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son said at the meeting in response to the action month on Population and Population Day of Vietnam on December 26 themed “ Improving the country’s population quality for sustainable and fast development”
The Vietnamese people have been enjoying years of peace, independence and reunification thanks to sacrifices by many generations and always nourishing desire for these three sacred things and standing together in the journey to the desire with the height being the victory on April 30, 1975, wrote General Nguyen Chi Vinh in the Special Spring Issue of Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper.
Vietnamese people are busy with preparing food for Ong Tao (Kitchen Gods) Farewell Ceremony and the service for the feast of farewell ceremony the God is booming.
Liver cancer is the fastest growing cause of cancer death in Vietnam with more than 25,000 cases yearly, said the two-day scientific seminar in the central province of Thua Thien- Hue, said the Hue Central Hospital and the Vietnam Liver and Bile Association at the seminar.
Annually, 200,000 Vietnamese people have stroke, a "brain attack”. Male and female stroke death incidence rates are 18 percent and 23 percent in Vietnam.
Lung cancer has become the leading killer of cancers in Vietnam with more than 23,000 fresh cases a year, said seminar participants in Vietnam- France cancer seminar yesterday in Hanoi.
Vietnam is facing challenges of improving healthcare index and control, reported the Ministry of Health in its document to propose to build a law on disease prevention and control to the Ministry of Justice.
With an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, Phase II of the Vietnam Red Cross’s project launched by U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel J. Kritenbrink yesterday is expected to benefit 13,700 people directly and 30,000 people indirectly in three provinces of the Mekong delta province of Bac Lieu, the northern province of Hoa Binh, and the central province of Quang Tri.
Around 70 percent of Vietnamese are infected with H.pylori bacteria while infection with H. pylori is the strongest known risk factor for gastric cancer.
