Health

Hanoi (VNA) – Over 1,400 health insurance cards for 2018, worth a total of about 240 million VND (10,560 USD), were presented to near-poor people in Kon Tum city, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, on March 8 by life insurer Hanwha Life Vietnam. Hanwha Vietnam also donated 1.4 billion VND (61,600 USD) to help around 8,150 near-poor people in Nghe An, Ca Mau and Lam Dong provinces purchase health insurance. It is the fifth consecutive year the life insurer has given away health insurance cards to people living in difficult circumstances. Earlier, the firm presented a total of over 37,500 health insurance cards, 30 houses and 360 gift packages to people in need across the country. It was estimated, by the end of 2017, about 26,100 poor households and 8,380 near-poor households in Kon Tum, or 26.81 percent of the local population, were in need of support to purchase health insurance. Founded in 1946, Hanwha Life Insurance is the oldest life insurance company in the … [Read more...] about Health insurances, free meals given to needy people in Central Highlands

Village midwives honoured at the ceremony on March 7 for excellence achievements in protecting and caring for mother and children’s health. (Photo: VNA) Kon Tum (VNS/VNA) - Old habits die hard, but Y Ngoc, 38, from Dak Sao commune in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum’s Tu Mo Rong district is determined to make a difference in reproductive healthcare for women in her village’s. “Being a woman, I understand how pained and worried women may be when they give birth. During this period, we need care and sympathy from relatives and experienced people. But most of the people believe in giving birth naturally without assistance," she said. Lack of access to healthcare during childbirth results in frequent deaths of both mothers and children. An opportunity to bring change came to Ngoc in 2009 when she was sent to attend a training course under the "Midwife in the Village" programme implemented by Ho Chi Minh City-based Tu Du Hospital. The popular programme … [Read more...] about Kon Tum midwife changes minds, saves lives

At District 2 Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City has set a target of having 18 doctors and 42 hospital beds per 10,000 residents in 2018 so as to increase the quality of health check-ups and treatment. The goal was announced by Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Health Tang Chi Thuong at a conference on March 6 to kick start the sector’s main tasks this year. According to Thuong, the municipal health sector also aims to have all medical stations at the ward and communal levels staffed with doctors and meet national requirements on health care, 85.2 percent of the population covered by health insurance, and over 95 percent of infants under 1 vaccinated. The sector will take initiative to prevent diseases in order to minimise the number of cases contracting diseases and the fatality rate. Extra efforts will be made to inaugurate the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital of Paediatrics in March and put the second facility of the … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City strives for 18 doctors per 10,000 residents

Economist Dr Dinh The Hien, president of the Institute of Information and Economic Research (IIB), talks to Kinh tế & Đô thị (Economic and Urban Affairs) newspaper on the support the private sector wants to receive from the Government. Vietnamese private sector: From zero to big leap Vietnam Private Sector Economic Forum focuses on value chains Dinh The Hien. — Photo tieudung.vn As a PhD in economics, what are your biggest concerns for the development of the private economy in Vietnam? The Vietnamese private economy employs some 60 per cent of the workforce in the country, a significant jump from the 26 per cent figure in 2000. The private sector also contributes 61 per cent of the revenues that go into the State budget. The capital returns from the private sector are much bigger than from the State economy, particularly the ICOR (incremental capital-output ratio). I’m glad that Vietnam has quite a few large-scaled economic corporations, … [Read more...] about Private enterprises want to have a health business environment

The exhibition, open Nov. 7 – Dec. 30 at L’Espace Hanoi, features the works of a Frenchman, Joseph Gobin and Vietnamese photographer Nguyen Phuong. Gobin’s pictures capture moments in a city that are not normally noticed or experienced - an iced tea stall closed at night underneath a shabby canvas, some pitchers on the wall’s edge, plastic chairs, lighters, ice bucket and plastic grocery bags or portraits of smiling people and pensive guests. Gobin’s photo captures an iced tea stall closed at night underneath a shabby canvas. Gobin finds Hanoi iced tea symbolic of daily life in a fast growing city that still retains its original features and charms. The second section of the exhibition is Nguyen Phuong’s collection, that try to pierce the moment in a greater depth, reflecting the photographer’s personal perspective, too. He wants to go beyond the glitter to the cracks behind the façade – in relationship and the city’s … [Read more...] about Hanoi photo exhibition captures ‘another’ city