Hà Tĩnh Province has decided to give land and partially fund the construction of a house for the three orphaned sisters who donated their mother’s organs after she died suddenly.

Certain types of vehicles will be exempt from paying tolls at the Bến Thuỷ I toll station connecting the central provinces of Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh, the Ministry of Transport (MoT) said on Tuesday.

Residents of Ninh Phước District’s Phước Sơn Commune in the southern province of Ninh Thuận are worried because of the increasing number of landslides along the Dinh River.

The Ministry of Health has urged relevant agencies to develop a Government decree on dietary supplements to control the production, trade, advertisement and labelling of the products.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has announced a National Monitoring Programme for Avian Flu to prevent the spread of the virus. Two cases were recently discovered in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế.

A pulmonary embolism is dangerous and potentially life-threatening. The fatality rate is 60 per cent of the total number of patients with a pulmonary embolism, if they are not treated.

Demand for electricity in the second quarter of this year will increase by 12 per cent at the peak of the dry season, which usually records the highest power consumption of the year, according to the national power company, Electricity of Vietnam (EVN).

An 18-month-old girl was brought recently to the Paediatrics Hospital 1 in HCM City from Tiền Giang Province with vaginal bleeding.

The number of methanol poisoning cases has surged over the past three months compared with previous years, according to information presented at a workshop Monday in Ha Noi on the effect of alcohol abuse and the treatment of methanol poisoning.