Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến yesterday instructed the preventive health sector to focus on effective prevention and control of both contagious and non-communicable diseases such as cancers on her working visit to the HCMC Pasteur Institute.

President Trần Đại Quang has encouraged HCM City delegates to the National Assembly to listen carefully to citizen feedback and to “continue the practice” of proposing policies that would help the city, even if some of them do not receive immediate approval.  

A 30-month-old child with meningococcal meningitis died on Monday, prompting health officials to take preventive measures against the spread of the disease.

Pinkeye cases have been occurring nationwide in a scattered manner, but they are tending to increase and can spread rapidly if preventive measures are not taken, health experts warn.

The Ministry of Transport’s Project Management Unit No. 7 has finished an investment report on the proposed cable-stayed Rạch Miễu Bridge No 2 over the Tiền River in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta.

The Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No 3 in Vũng Tàu City on Friday assigned a ship and some doctors to rush to the scene and provide first aid to 11 seamen who had met with an accident at sea.

Cần Thơ City on Thursday announced it busted a football gambling ring operating on a large scale on the internet.

Doctors from Bạch Mai Hospital in Hà Nội have reported at least one patient everyday hospitalised due to herbicide poisoning, popularly known as paraquat poisoning.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long yesterday (Feb 16) urged agencies and local authorities in the southern region to take preventive measures against outbreaks of dengue and Zika virus infections.