Health

Thanks to good preventative mission, many Vietnamese mothers living with HIV have healthy babies. Worse, several of others refused treatment to prevent fatal transmission to their children. Accordingly, there have been many hiccups along the way Vietnam can achieve its goal by 2020. The transmission of HIV from a HIV-positive mother to her child during pregnancy, labor, delivery or breastfeeding is called mother-to-child transmission. Periodically, a mother from the Mekong delta province of An GIang takes her son to the Children Hospital No.1 in Ho Chi Minh City for treatment. Her son was infected with HIV because she transmitted to him yet she didn’t receive treatment while being pregnant. The mother said she had to take the son to an infirmary in HCMC instead one in An Giang province because she worried her son would become a victims of discrimination by neighboring people and friends. Since its establishment in 2005, the hospital’s department of Infection has admitted … [Read more...] about Vietnam tries to prevent mother-to-child transmission

A medical worker prepares to administer vaccine to a baby in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam is promoting hepatitis B vaccination for newborns in mountainous and remote areas where the customs of giving birth at home still challenges immunization efforts. In the first three months of 2018, vaccination coverage was expanded on schedule. The rate of babies getting hepatitis B shots within 24 hours of birth reached 16.9 percent, compared to 16.2 percent in the same period of 2017.  Meanwhile, the immunization rates of tuberculosis vaccine (BCG), polio vaccine (OPV), and combined DPT-VGB-Hib vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B, and haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) have also been higher from a year earlier, according to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) under the Ministry of Health. NIHE Deputy Director Duong Thi Hong said the vaccination coverage has surpassed 95 percent … [Read more...] about Vietnam boosts hepatitis B vaccination for newborns in remote areas

The drug is withdrawn because it cannot meet the quality requirement on the criterion of lipopolysaccharide in the solvent. The Drug Administration of Vietnam requested that Vinphaco cooperates with its distributors to send notice to all wholesalers, retailers, and users nationwide of the mentioned drug about the withdrawal. The batch of below-standard injection must be immediately taken back, and proper reports on the task as well as proofs of this activity must be prepared. The Departments of Health in Hanoi and Vinh Phuc Province are asked to monitor Vinphaco when carrying out this task in accordance with related regulations. Other departments of Health in provinces and cities also need to issue notice to all pharmaceutical businesses and users about the drug withdrawal. Vintrypsine injection is normally used to reduce inflammation of soft tissue due to abscess or injuries. It is also used to decrease respiratory secretions for patients of asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis, and other … [Read more...] about Vintrypsine injection with bacteria poison withdrawn

This action is to increase the immune system of babies against measles. At the moment, the mentioned research has been given to the Research Council of the Ministry of Health to evaluate. It is expected that in the fourth quarter of 2018, 6-month-old babies will begin to receive measles vaccine. In reality, many babies under 9 months old have been suffered from measles due to their mother’s low immune system and the inability to pass it to children. Therefore, it is high time that the government reduced the age of measles vaccine injection while encouraging women of reproductive age to vaccinate properly. Simultaneously, related agencies should deliver wide-scale measles vaccination to highly potential subjects so that this disease can be eliminated in the nation in 2020. The Ministry of Health is going to launch a campaign to give measles- rubella vaccine to children from 1 to 4 years old in 17 provinces that have high potential of the disease. According to the representative … [Read more...] about 6-month-old babies to have measles vaccine from 4th quarter of 2018

Since 2007, the Can Tho Central General Hospital (Can Tho Hospital) has paid much attention and allocated investment into heart surgery. In November 2014, Cho Ray Hospital offered its counterpart support on this field ranging from medical examination to diagnosis, surgery, anesthesiology & recovery, and post-surgery anticipation. As a result, the Can Tho Hospital can now confidently perform heart surgery for patients. In the last 3 years, the Can Tho Hospital successfully performed heart surgery for about 124 patients, many of whom were complicated cases. A number of benefactors have financially supported surgery activities for poor patients here. According to Doctor Nguyen Minh Vu, Director of the hospital, thanks to the aid of Cho Ray Hospital as well as the sufficient investment from the management board, we are able to treat most diseases related to cardiac valve, aorta, or congenital diseases and emergency cases. At the moment, the hospital is implementing new techniques … [Read more...] about Can Tho Hospital receives advanced heart surgery technique from HCMC

The Ministry of Health yesterday issued a circular No. 15/2018/TT-BYT to set prices of treatment services in all same class hospitals nationwide. Besides, it gave guidelines for some special cases. According to the circular, the Ministry adjusted 88 prices of medical services, bed charges in hospitals and clinics, and cost of scan, MRI, CT scanner, PET-CT. Director of the ministry's department of finance and planning Nguyen Nam Lien said that treatment charge will plunge by 15-20 percent (or VND4,800 – 5,900). As per the circular, treatment cost in first-class hospital decreases from VND39,000 ($1.7) to VND33,100 while it will fall from VND35,000 to VND29,600 in second-class facility and from VND29,000 to VND23,300. Bed prices will drop from VND632,200 to VND615,600 in first-class infirmaries and from VND226,000 to VND221,200 in four-class infirmaries in intensive care units or anti-poison department. However, bed charge in largest hospitals’ intensive care units and organ … [Read more...] about Treatment, surgery, medical service fees drop

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien (R) and French Minister of Solidarities and Health Agnès Buzyn sign letter of intent on cooperation between the two ministries (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam and France signed many cooperation agreements in health during a working visit to France by Vietnamese Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien from June 13-17 at the invitation of French Minister of Solidarities and Health Agnès Buzyn. The visit aimed to concretise important agreements reached between the two countries during the official visit to France by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong in March 2018, which are hoped to turn health cooperation into a key pillar of the Strategic Partnership between the two nations. The visit took place in the context that the two sides are celebrating the 25years of signing the Government agreement on health cooperation and the 45th anniversary of diplomatic ties. During their talks on June 14, the two … [Read more...] about Vietnam, France look to foster health link

Spraying anti-mosquito chemicals (Source: VNA)   Can Tho (VNS/VNA) - The Department of Health of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho said there have been 213 cases of dengue fever in the city this year and 60 hotspots. Eighty eight percent of the victims were people aged under 15 years, according to the department. Thach Minh Duc, deputy head of the dengue fever division at the Can Tho Children’s Hospital, said: “The hospital received 200 patients this month. The disease is expected to spread further.”   The downtown area is among the worst affected, with Ninh Kieu district accounting for 25 cases and O Mon for 32, he said. The department said the southern region is severely affected in the rainy season. There have been four deaths in the country in the first six months out of 20,552 cases. In Can Tho, the number of cases has decreased by 41.4 percent this year, according to the department. Huynh Minh Truc, Director of the city’s Preventive … [Read more...] about Can Tho city reels from dengue outbreak

As per the Ministry’s project, electronic health record will be piloted in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, the northern provinces of Lao Cai, Yen Bai, the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Khanh Hoa, the highlands province of Lam Dong and the Mekong delta province of Long An. The pilot project will be carried out in these above-mentioned provinces for the period of 2018 – 2020. After the pilot time, it is scheduled that electronic health record will be implemented in the country from July, 2019. The project was run according to the 12th-tenure Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV) Central Committee’s resolution No. 20-NQ/TW with the aim of 95 percent of the population will have electronic health record by 2030. Head of the IT Department Tran Quy Tuong said that a person will have an electronic health record in the nation’s electronic health record system. The system will give information of patients to doctor’s so as to facilitate treatment procedure. The project … [Read more...] about Electronic health record pilots in eight provinces

The new vaccination centre at 243A De La Thanh street in Hanoi (Photo: vnvc.vn)   Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) on June 17 inaugurated its third vaccination centre at 243A De La Thanh street in Hanoi. Covering an area of more than 3,000 square metres, the centre is the largest and most modern of its kind in the country. It is capable of serving up to 3,000 people per day, with 80 rooms for medical checkups and injection. The centre provides all vaccines for children and adults.  Earlier in December 2017, VNVC opened its second vaccination centre in Ho Chi Minh City’s Phu Nhuan district, aiming to meet the increasing demand of immunisation of local people. The establishment includes 17 rooms for checkups and 13 others for inoculation, enabling it to serve up to 2,500 people a day. According to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, the coverage of immunisation in the first three months of 2018 was on progress. … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s largest vaccination centre inaugurated