Health experts and policy makers discussed ways to improve the outcomes of patient care and the quality of pharma products at a symposium yesterday in Hà Nội.

Doctors from Đà Nẵng’s Paediatrics and Obstetrics Hospital and the International Pediatric Specialists Alliance (IPSAC) have successfully completed a surgery on a local three-month-old baby who had been born without an anus.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng has requested masterminds of a Hà Nội development master plan to work on a more orientation for the capital city and neighbouring provinces with focus on overhead and underground transport to ease traffic congestion.

The progress of the Dầu Giây-Phan Thiết Expressway and plans to acquire the lands required for it were discussed at a meeting on Tuesday between the project’s management agency and officials from provinces through which the expressway will run.

About 20 per cent of the Vietnamese population needs financial support, said Dr Nguyễn Ngọc Toản, deputy head of the Social Protection Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, yesterday at a workshop in Hà Nội.

Nearly 11,000 ha of natural forest which was allocated to local people in Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) Province of Đắk Lắk has suffered serious deforestation, said the provincial Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Project Management Unit of Railway of the Cát Linh-Hà Đông urban railway project admitted that it violated regulations pertaining to labour and occupational safety standards during construction.

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng called for prompt actions to fight drought and saline intrusion while visiting the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, head of the State Steering Committee for the National Mine Action Programme, has agreed to establish the Mine Action Partnership Group (MAPG).