Nguyen Thi Ly, aged 52, a resident in Mai hamlet, Yen Bai commune, Ba Vi district, Hanoi, was hospitalized at the Intensive Care Unit of Military Hospital 105 of the General Department of Logistics of the Vietnam People’s Army at around 19:00 on January 11. Doctors are checking Ly's health condition Ly was in a critical condition with ventricular fibrillation. She immediately received emergency aid and was provided with powerful electric shocks. Despite great efforts of the doctors, the patient’s condition did not improve. Therefore, the hospital’s leadership decided to contact and send the patient to Military Hospital 103 for intensive treatment. Right after receiving the patient, doctors from Military Hospital 103 performed different techniques with an attempt to save her. At last, their efforts were paid off after more than 1 hour 30 minutes. Touched with whole-hearted deeds from Military Hospital 103’s medical personnel, … [Read more...] about Military hospitals give emergency aid to patient
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Vietnamese hospital diagnoses man with ‘normal’ uterus and ovaries
Doctors in southern Vietnam have assured a man who was suffering from a stomachache that both his ovaries and uterus are fine. The 23-year-old requested an ultrasound of his stomach at a private hospital on the resort island of Phu Quoc in Kien Giang Province last week after having been in pain for days. The result said “the uterus is of a normal size and thickness, there are no unusual tumors, and nothing abnormal was detected in the ovaries.” The patient was angry and shared the results on Facebook, prompting the hospital to apologize. A source from the hospital said a nurse had mistakenly printed the results belonging to a female patient. It's not clear if the young man will be looking for another scan, but he's unlikely to be returning to the same hospital any time soon. This is not the first time such an inaccurate diagnosis has been made in Vietnam. Last year some men were given bizarre results ranging from a “normal pregnancy” to "vaginal injuries." While … [Read more...] about Vietnamese hospital diagnoses man with ‘normal’ uterus and ovaries
Ministry introduces new quality criteria for private hospitals
The Ministry of Health has issued a set of criteria to classify the quality of The move came after the Vietnam Social Security decided that in 2018, private hospitals and healthcare clinics that wanted to sign a contract with the agency to examine people with health insurance cards, would have to show a legal document proving their quality under the ministry’s standards. Le Van Phuc, deputy head of the agency’s department for health insurance implementation, said that based on the classification, the agency could exactly calculate the rate of health insurance fees it had to cover for a patient treated at a private hospital or healthcare clinic instead of a public hospital or healthcare clinic. CPV/VNA … [Read more...] about Ministry introduces new quality criteria for private hospitals
New criteria classify private hospitals
The move came after the Việt Nam Social Insurance Agency decided that in 2018, private hospitals and healthcare clinics that wanted to sign a contract with the agency to examine people with health insurance cards, would have to show a legal document proving their quality under the ministry’s standards.Lê Văn Phúc, deputy head of the agency’s department for health insurance implementation, said that based on the classification, the agency could exactly calculate the rate of health insurance fees it had to cover for a patient treated at a private hospital or healthcare clinic instead of a public hospital or healthcare clinic.A health insurance cardholder has to register one public hospital or health clinic to receive treatment before they started to use the card. However, patients were sometimes examined and treated at private hospitals and healthcare clinics instead of public hospitals and healthcare clinics as … [Read more...] about New criteria classify private hospitals
Vietnamese boys hospitalized after being attacked by family dogs
Two boys in southern Vietnam are recovering from surgery after sustaining serious injuries in separate attacks by family dogs. Doctors at the Children’s Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City announced on Thursday that they successfully carried out surgeries to save the lives of two child dog attack victims. The first patient, a one-and-a-half-year-old boy from the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, was hospitalized at 12:00 am on January 4. According to the boy’s mother, she was doing the dishes after lunch when she heard cries coming from the front yard where her son had been left to play. She rushed outside to find that part of her son’s face had been mauled off by one of the family’s dogs. The boy was holding a stick that he had probably used to poke the German shepherd. German shepherds are popular in Vietnam due to their intelligence and strength, both traits which make them excellent guard dogs. The mother immediately … [Read more...] about Vietnamese boys hospitalized after being attacked by family dogs
FV Hospital to build US$5 mln medical centre in Da Nang
General Director of the hospital Jean-Marcel Guillon said at a meeting with the municipal leaders last week that the centre would provide quality health care services for residents of and visitors to the central city as well as the central and Central Highlands regions. Vice Chairman of the city People’s Committee Ho Ky Minh said Da Nang has called for investment into the health care sector, including wholly-foreign invested projects. He told Guillon that the city would offer the best support and smooth conditions for the FV Hospital to launch its medical and health care centre in Da Nang soon. Gullon and a group of other French doctors founded the FV Hospital in HCM City in 2003, providing a full-service, one-stop quality medical care for residents of the southern hub and neighbouring provinces. Da Nang has plans to build a world-class paediatric hospital with an investment of US$300 million. The city currently has 11 hospitals with 1,000 doctors and more than 620 … [Read more...] about FV Hospital to build US$5 mln medical centre in Da Nang
Vietnam’s level-two field hospital receives US medical equipment
Receiving the medical equipment package from the US The package, the second to be received, with modern medical tools and equipment, including an anesthetic machine, an X-ray machine, a ventilator and a defibrillator, will partly help the level-2 field hospital to meet the UN-mandated criteria for a field hospital. According to the hospital’s leadership, the hospital will practice and operate these machines to quickly master them, as they have done with the previous package. As planned, this month, a UN mission will check comprehensively the operation of Vietnam’s level-two field hospital before allowing it to be deployed to the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. At present, the hospital is improving its repository to better manage and use this equipment. Translated by Tran Hoai … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s level-two field hospital receives US medical equipment
Hanoi girl hospitalized with depression linked to Facebook addiction
An 18-year-old girl is being treated for depression at a hospital in Hanoi due to signs of an addiction to Facebook, a worrying trend that doctors say is becoming more common among young people in Vietnam. Her parents resorted to sedating the girl after she reacted badly when they banned her from using the internet and refused to cooperate with a visiting psychiatrist. “She smashed things up and shouted at us,” her father said, sharing the story with local media for the first time on Monday. “We had to sedate her so we could get her to the hospital,” he said. The high school girl was admitted to the National Psychiatric Hospital No.1 around a month ago, and doctors said she is responding positively to treatment. Her father said she was friendly and performing well at school up until four months ago, when she became withdrawn and stopped hanging out with her friends. She started spending most of her time on her phone, browsing and chatting on Facebook, and … [Read more...] about Hanoi girl hospitalized with depression linked to Facebook addiction
Vietnamese Facebook addict hospitalized for depression
A teenage girl in northern Vietnam has been hospitalized for depression brought on by her addiction to Facebook, the social media network a former executive has claimed to be “ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.” According to To Thanh Phuong, deputy director of the National Hospital of Psychiatrics I in Hanoi, the 17-year-old patient was admitted for over a month after she became depressed because of an addiction to Facebook. Prior to her hospitalization, the girl had become bored with school, suffered from an eating disorder, and refused to engage in any real-life interactions, be it with her family members or friends. She would spend days locked away alone in her room to browse Facebook on her smartphone, and would throw a violent tantrum any time she was separated from her device. Her parents were clueless as to how many hours she would spend per day on the social media site, Phuong said, and the girl would stay up all night using her smartphone … [Read more...] about Vietnamese Facebook addict hospitalized for depression
Vietnam’s peacekeeping force plans 70-strong hospital in South Sudan
Vietnam is negotiating with the United Nations to open a field hospital with 70 staff in South Sudan, an effort to increase its contribution to world peace. Vietnam is taking final steps to hopefully open the hospital in the conflict-torn African country in April, before launching a team of 268 military engineers there in 2019, Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of National Defense Nguyen Chi Vinh said on Friday. “It’s time we participate in peacekeeping acitivites from deeper angles and on a larger scale,” Vinh said. He made the announcement at a ceremony to reorganize the ministry’s peacekeeping center to Vietnam Peacekeeping Department, an upgrade in title and authority. The department is now manned with 77 military officers and soldiers. Established in 2013, the unit has sent 20 officers to work as the UN peacekeepers in Africa, including the first female officer in October last year. … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s peacekeeping force plans 70-strong hospital in South Sudan