While dengue fever continues to plague many provinces and cities nationwide, scientists have discovered a new fever with similar symptoms that is difficult to diagnose and treat.

The new fever is caused by the Chikungunya virus, which is believed to be transmitted by the Asian tiger mosquito or forest-day mosquito (Aedes albopictus), said the Health Ministry's Department ...

As part of a campaign launched by the Ministry of Health, 95 per cent of the 7.5 million children susceptible to the measles will be vaccinated. The campaign is taking place in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Viet Nam.
This effort, implemented by the National Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI), ...

Health Minister Nguyên Quôc Trieu said medical workers have raised quality of treatment and healthcare through joining actively in movements such as studying and following President Ho Chi Minh's moral example, good doctors are also nice mothers of patients, doctors and nurses work following Uncle Ho’s teaching.

Mr. Trieu said this at an annual meeting to review ...

Doctors in HCM City hospitals say the number of children afflicted with the hand-foot- mouth disease (HFMD) has increased since the beginning of this week.
Paediatric Hospital No2 has been seeing around 60 children per day with the disease for the last several days.

Around 10 of these children are being asked to stay in the hospital for closer monitoring. In contrast, ...

Hand washing with soap is an effective and cheap health intervention, said co-ordinator for the National Hand Washing Initiative under the Water and Sanitation Programme Nguyen Kim Nga.

Scientific evidence reveals that hand washing cuts the incidence of diarrhoea by nearly half, and acute respiratory infections by about one-third, she said.

However, only 12 per ...

Head of Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD) Pham Binh Quyen, an insect expert, told inhabitants not to so much worry as the blood-sucking stink bugs like biting rats only.

People seemly fall to panic as the media currently reports that outbreaks of blood-sucking insects occurred in residential quarters in Hanoi and Da Nang and 1,000 b hatches of ...

The Ministry of Health ordered a health official to explain for what he told the media about inspection results of Tamiflu scandal, said deputy health minister Trinh Quang Huan at a press briefing in Hanoi on September 21.

The ministry’s Legislation Department deputy director Nguyen Huy Quang must write an explanation about his revealing a report on inspection results ...

So far this year dengue fever outbreaks nationwide have sickened 55,430 and claimed 42 lives, officials said. Therefore, the country needs to strengthen measures to limit the outbreak of the disease.

The worst affected region was the Central region,  Central Highlands and Mekong Delta.

According to centers for Preventive Health in locals, this year's massive ...

Although health services have improved in recent years, demand still exceeds supply as investors are still not pouring money into the sector, according to the Ministry of Health.
While hospitals in provinces and cities have invested in upgrading and buying modern machines, and improved skills of staff, they still are not meeting the demand of the people, according to Minister ...

As the year-end deadline for application of Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) standards nears, only one-fourth of the pharmacies in the city have achieved it.
For the last three years since the Health Ministry issued its decision (No 11/2007/QD-BYT), HCM City has taken several steps to implement it, but so far just 927 of 3,667 medical establishments have succeeded in applying ...

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has instructed health officials to take firm measures to combat dengue fever.

More than 55,400 dengue fever cases have been reported nationwide this year.

Dung asked provincial and municipal People's Committee chairmen to mobilise all available forces to fight against the disease and to closely monitor affected areas to prevent the ...

As the year-end deadline for application of Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) standards nears, only one-fourth of the pharmacies in the city have achieved it.
For the last three years since the Health Ministry issued its decision (No 11/2007/QD-BYT), HCM City has taken several steps to implement it, but so far just 927 of 3,667 medical establishments have succeeded in applying ...

Medical researchers want to recycle 10 million expired Tamiflu tablets.
Destroying the tablets would waste both money and the opportunity to research the recovery of oseltamivir phosphate, said the Viet Nam Institute of Science and Technology's pharmaceutical research and development centre director, Professor Nguyen Van Hung.

"Oseltamivir phosphate - an anti-viral ...

A new campaign launched by the Ministry of Health, including two vaccinations against measles for children aged between nine and 18 months, will cover 7.5 million children nationwide from September 24, in an effort to cover at least 95 per cent of the target population.
"More than 7,000 cases of measles were reported in 2009, that's why we've launched the campaign," said ...

The Government Inspectorate has accused the Ministry of Health of wasting money when it purchased Tamiflu in 2005 at double the market rate.
In a bid to contain an avian flu outbreak between 2003 and 2005, which saw 91 people come down with the lethal disease, the ministry authorised the purchase of 30 million Tamiflu pills, which potentially could treat 3 million patients, ...

Dengue fever is booming in a number of localities after several patients were hospitalised after they began suffering from side-effects.

Many patients suffered from prolonged fever and fatigue, while others were hospitalised for internal bleeding, vomiting blood or brain haemorrhages, said Dr Trinh Thi Ngoc, head of Bach Mai Hospital's Infectious Diseases Faculty in Ha ...

The disease of conjunctivitis, locally called red eye disease, still occurs complicatedly and persists in Hanoi and neighboring provinces, said the Central Eye Hospital on September 3.

In August alone, the hospital received nearly 2,000 patients suffering from the conjunctivitis, doubled over previous months.

Its doctors forecast the number of patients would increase ...

Flu vaccine against influenza H1N1, H3N2, and influenza B is available in preventive health centers in Vietnam, said a medical worker on August 31.

Dr. Nguyen Thi Hong Hanh, vice director of the country's National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology said the vaccine can prevent influenza strains of H1N1, H3N2, and influenza B as seasonal sicknesses proliferate with ...

The number of brain haemorrhage patients in HCM City hospitals is on the rise and a large number are dying.

"People's failure to control their hypertension is the most popular cause of the disease, which makes blood vessel break and overflow into brain tissue," says Dr Nguyen Anh Tai, Head of the hospital's Neurology Faculty.

Cho Ray Hospital received about 1,200 ...

Doctors of Ho Chi Minh City’s Children Hospital No.2 have successfully performed the kidney transplantation on an eleven-year-old boy, Nguyen Van G, from the southern province of Binh Phuoc.

Suffering from kidney disease for three years, the boy was treated artificial blood purification since August, 2009.

During the five hours operation with support of experts ...