Eye doctors called for more support for poor people in Viet Nam who are suffering visual impairments.

The call was made in Ha Noi yesterday to mark the World Sight Day.

According to statistics from the health sector, there are about two million blind people in Viet Nam.

Two-thirds of them have no money for treatment or simply don't know that their disease ...

A growing number of psychiatric patients in the country are shedding light on Viet Nam's severe shortage of psychiatrists and poor medical facilities.
Social prejudices continue to hinder doctors to take up the profession, said director of the National Institute of Mental Heath Tran Huu Binh.

A study published by the HCM City-based Psychiatric Hospital this April ...

The health ministry has warned residents to take measures to prevent contracting dengue fever during the next two months.
Deputy head of the ministry's Preventive Medicine Department Dr Nguyen Van Binh warned people in the country's flood-hit central region to take extra precautions, including exterminating mosquitoes, maintaining a hygienic environment and covering water ...

The health ministry has warned residents to take measures to prevent contracting dengue fever during the next two months.

Deputy Head of the Preventive Medicine Department Nguyen Van Binh warned people in the country's flood-hit central region to take extra precautions.

The ministry reports that there have been more than 78,000 dengue fever so far this year and ...

The number of people suffering from cancer was increasing across Viet Nam, warned participants at a national conference on cancer prevention on Thursday.

According to statistics presented at the conference, between 100,000 and 200,000 new cancer cases are reported in Viet Nam each year, while between 15,000-20,000 people die from cancer annually.

The rate of male ...

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), ...

Nearly 50,000 people will be given free eye checks, consultancy and surgery in the largest charity vision programme to be held on World Sight Day on October 14 in Ha Noi.
The programme, organised by the Ha Noi Eye Hospital and the Fred Hollow Foundation, will run in Ha Noi until the end of October.

Teams of eye doctors will travel to outlying districts and schools ...

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 ...