Mothers with children under 2 years old in rural areas in the northern mountainous provinces of Thái Nguyên and Bắc Giang have benefited from a nutrition communications project launched by the National Institute of Nutrition under the Ministry of Health from April 2014 to March 2017.

The Ministry of Health has urged localities to take drastic prevention measures in response to an increase of Zika patients in Southeast Asian countries.

The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed districts and relevant departments to urgently draft plans to relocate people living in erosion-prone areas.

Many health workers are reportedly quitting their jobs at public hospitals and seeking opportunities in private clinics, citing low salaries, a pressure-filled environment and a shortage of favourable policies as reasons to quit.

It is important to know how to protect oneself during thunderstorms, especially in vulnerable areas.

The recent resumption of salbutamol imports is to meet the demand for production of medicines containing the substance in hospitals nationwide.

A 40-seater passenger bus, traveling from the north-central province of Quảng Bình to Hà Nội, was on Monday fined VNĐ41.5 million (US$1,850) for overloading the vehicle.

Two people were killed and nine others were injured in a tragic bus accident which occurred earlier today on the Pháp Vân-Cầu Giẽ highway.

Nearly 1,000 students of kindergarten, primary and secondary school have not yet begun attending classes in coastal central Hà Tĩnh Province, although schools officially reopened yesterday nation-wide.