Diabetics find it difficult to change their eating habits or strictly follow the diets ordered by doctor, and this detracts from the effective of treatment, according to the Việt Nam Association of Diabetes and Endocrinology.

Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến has asked central and local medical facilities nationwide to review hospital services offered by private organisations and individuals.

The southern Bình Dương Province is inviting private investors to build schools in an attempt to tackle the acute shortage of classrooms for new students.

The methadone detoxication programme in HCM City has had the desired effect and contributed to security and social order, the HCM City People’s Committee reported.

Fifty per cent of Vietnamese students suffer from short-sightedness, a survey conducted by the Central Eye Hospital has revealed.

The Government was urged to set up an agency specialising in policy advocacy in order to issue policies that fit the current situation of socio-economic development.

Japanese encephalitis is quickly spreading in the northern provinces, said Trần Đắc Phu, Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Việt Nam (AmCham Việt Nam) helped organise blood donations in HCM City yesterday (July 12) during World Blood Donor Day, which was initiated by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Twenty households along the Đồng Nai River in southern Đồng Nai Province’s Tân An Commune had to evacuate when their houses were damaged and sank almost a metre after a landslide.