The Preventive Medicine Center of Ho Chi Minh City is ready for its free vaccination plan against five diseases starting on June 1, deputy director Nguyen Dac Tho said May 29.

The 5-in-1 vaccine is against Diphtheria; Tetanus; Pertussis (whooping-cough), hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza.

The plan targets babies born on April 1, 2010 and later.
 

To boost public-private cooperation in health sector, a conference was held by two ministries of Health and Planning and Investment, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and World Bank in the city on May 26 and 27.

 
Patients and relatives sit and lie down in a small hospital room. The government should call for investments in the health sector  to ...

Dr. Nguyen Thi Minh Phuong from the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute said the five in one vaccine which will be free given to babies under one year old in the National Expanded Program on Immunization next June is safe as public concern raised about the new supported by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) Partners Forum.

Vietnam has tested reaction ...

HA NOI — Babies under 12 months will receive a new combined diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza type B vaccine under the National Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI) as of June 2010.

"The five in one vaccine, donated by the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (GAVI) through the United Nation Fund for Children (UNICEF), ...

HA NOI — "I know my cigarette smoke will affect people who don't smoke around me but I didn't know it was so serious," said Nguyen Van Dung from northern Hai Duong Province, who is being treated for lung cancer at Hospital K in Ha Noi. (Smoking in public affects to not only smokers' health but other people around them. — VNA/VNS Photo Nhat Anh)

Diep claimed ...

THUA THIEN HUE — Orbis International signed an agreement with the central province of Thua Thien- Hue to improve eyecare and reduce rates of blindness for children in seven central provinces.

The Ministry of Health has estimated that annually between 10,000-15,000 children in the region are in need of eyecare, while 1,000 to 1,500 of that number require surgeries.

The ...

Doctors suspect a patient in the central province of Quang Ngai died due to consuming diseased pigs, said a health official on May 24.

Dr. Nguyen Xuan Men, deputy director of the Department of Health of the province, confirmed that a 37 year old man in the Quang Ngai City died on May 22. Quang Ngai province is one of the provinces stricken by “the Porcine Reproductive ...

Several strange dangerous diseases have attacked people, adding the list of diseases like influenza, dengue fever, diarrhea in the scorching hot weather in the country

Nguyen Trung Cap,  a doctor of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, said there had three pregnant women suffered from a rare pneumonia.

The pregnant patients from the northern ...

HA NOI — The number of children currently suffering from viral fever in Ha Noi has risen sharply, according to Associate Professor Nguyen Tien Dung, head of Bach Mai Hospital Paediatrics Department.

"About one-third of 100-200 children hospitalised daily are suffering from viral fever", said Dung.

The same situation is repeated at the Central Paediatric Hospital. ...

HCM CITY — The Ministry of Health is implementing a pilot project to establish and upgrade a network of first-aid clinics along four highways.

The project aims to provide timely aid to victims of traffic accidents in order to minimise fatalities.

The four highway sections selected for the project are: Ha Noi – Nghe An; Ha Noi – Hai Phong; HCM City – Can Tho and ...

Well-known herbalists from traditional hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City will provide free diagnosis, treatment and prescriptions to kick-off Herbal Medicine Week May 20.

The four-day event is being held in District 5 along several streets known for their herbal medicines.

The focus of the event will be at what is possibly Vietnam’s largest herbal medicine market, ...

HCM CITY — The Ministry of Health is seeking approval to set up a nodal agency that will manage all organ donation and transplantation in the country.

Once established, the centre would act as a liaison agency between people seeking to donate organs and those in need of transplants and assign priority for the recipients, Nguyen Tuan Hung, deputy director of the ministry's ...

The Health Minister has ordered hospitals nationwide to ensure outside individuals are not allowed to manage pharmacies located in their premises.

In an instruction issued last Friday (May 7), the Ministry of Health ordered that pharmaceutical departments and finance department of a hospital will manage the pharmacies.

In inviting bids for supplying the hospital-based ...

Five in one vaccine will be shot for over two month old Vietnam neonates next June
Five in one vaccine will be free given to over two-month old babies under the National Expanded Program on Immunization next June, said a health official.

The five in one vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B and Hib is supported by the Global Alliance ...

Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) has instructed importers and distributors to make large orders for foreign-made vaccines to cover an urgent shortage in HCMC and Hanoi.
 
DAV instructed clinics, who were waiting for imports of three-in-one vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella, to use individual vaccines until stocks arrive.

The drug administration ...

A free vaccination against five diseases will soon be available for free to all Vietnamese children, said Deputy Health Minister Trinh Quan Huan at a meeting of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) in Hanoi November 20 on providing vaccines to Vietnam to reduce child mortality.

After the meeting, GAVI pledged to supply the country with over US$37 million ...

The Ho Chi Minh City-based Pasteur Institute announced it has successfully produced a vaccine against A/H1N1 flu based on Vero cell-based technology instead of the conventional fertilized hen-egg vaccine technology.

Following the fact, the Ministry of Health will soon set up a scientific council to test this vaccine.

Meanwhile, the director of the Institute of ...

More than 80 percent of A/H1N1 influenza deaths result from delayed treatment to high-risk individuals, said a health official at a meeting of the National Steering Board of Human Flu Prevention on October 28 in Hanoi.  

Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, chief of the Department of Preventive Health and Environment, said that of Vietnam’s 35 A/H1N1 deaths, 29 were considered ...

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam reported three more influenza A deaths on September 25, raising the H1N1-related casualties in the country to 14.
 
The two deaths reported by the HCMC Health Department were a 13-year-old from the Mekong Delta province of Long An and a 49-year-old Australian.

The child, who was overweight and also had kidney failure, died from ...