Hanoi ‘s metropolitan Department of Health has instituted a plan to reduce overcrowding in hospitals over a subsequent 8 years, with a total investment of some-more than 25.7 trillion VND (1.2 billion USD). The project’s appropriation will come from bonds, central growth assistance and a city budget. The dialect has due building 25 new hospitals with over 8,300 beds, that will addition a stream 40 hospitals with around 8,000 beds.... 

Vietnamese and unfamiliar experts presented scarcely 50 papers during a 12th Vietnam-France-Asia-Pacific Conference on Obstetrics and Gynecology held on May 10 in HCM City. The annual conference, organised by a city-based Tu Du Hospital, a French College National Gynecologist-obstetricians, and a Borderless Gynecology Association, discussed a latest developments in a field. Population, women’s health, environmental effects on reproductive health,... 

Can Tho ubiquitous sanatorium in Can Tho city has put 25 new synthetic kidney machines into operation, portion a final of people in a Mekong Delta region. The hospital’s Director Dang Quang Tam pronounced on May 9 that a apparatus is saved by a World Bank around a plan on ancillary a health zone in a Mekong Delta. Earlier, a range had usually 4 synthetic kidney machines, that can usually met 20 percent of patients’ needs. With a operation... 

The Unilever Vietnam Fund has helped to build and ascent 20 public toilets while improving open recognition of personal and environmental hygiene in 20 communes in 10 districts of 10 cities and provinces nationwide. The formula were expelled during a conference in Hanoi on May 8 to examination a doing of a 25 billion VND plan to urge village health, focusing on personal and environmental hygiene. The five-year project, starting from 2007,... 

Viet Duc Hospital has implemented successfully a liver transplant for a 74-year-old studious – a oldest among those who got liver transplant in Vietnam to date. Director Nguyen Tien Quyet of a Hanoi-based sanatorium pronounced that a studious health was in good liberation after a seven-hour operation on May 6. Liver donor was a patient’s relations who was 40 years old. The cost for an organ transplant in Vietnam is... 

Authorities sojourn confused by a puzzling skin illness that has killed scarcely 20 people and putrescent many others in Quang Ngai province though a Ministry of Health has sent dual delegations to investigate. Pham Hong Phuong, executive of a Quang Ngai Province Department of Health, pronounced a method has resolved it is palm rash with liver problems. But he refused to yield further information about a ministry’s end or assume about it. ... 

Large numbers of children have been certified to sanatorium with diarrhoea, high fevers and respiratory diseases caused by a prohibited continue over the last few days, contend doctors during a National Hospital of Paediatrics. The sanatorium is receiving between 2,500-3,000 children for diagnosis daily, while a paediatric wards during a Ha Dong, Saint Paul , Thanh Nhan and Bach Mai Hospitals are saying up to 700 children per day, adult by... 

A plan to rise informal and provincial hospitals in a second proviso regulating ODA loans of Japan will be carried out in 10 hospitals this year, pronounced a convention in Hanoi on May 4. At a seminar, Deputy Minister of Public Health Nguyen Thi Xuyen highlighted a significance of non-refundable assist supposing by Japan and other developmental partners in a medical sector. The plan will have an critical purpose in a context where a medical... 

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported disappearing breastfeeding rates in Asia progressing this week. Only 10 percent Vietnamese babies are now fed exclusively with breast milk, according to UNICEF, compared to 19 percent in 2008. The figure is 5 percent in Thailand and 28 percent in China . The low breastfeeding rates opposite East Asia resulted from a fact that some-more women have entered a workforce, that has... 

The National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion non-stop a branch dungeon bank and centre on May 3. Head of a hospital Professor Nguyen Anh Tri pronounced that a branch cell bank will store all a country’s DNA information while a branch dungeon centre will control research, lift out branch dungeon transplants and request the most modernized treatments for blood disease. The centre will also inspire people to present branch cells...