More than 500 doctors and health officials participated in a series of recent seminars on updates on national guidelines on cervical cancer screening.

Mobile phone users must submit portrait photos when registering for accounts, an official from the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) said.

A pilot programme of the Ministry of Health (MoH) to combine tuberculosis and HIV treatments for TB/HIV co-infected patients in medical centres at district and commune levels have yielded positive results, experts said.

With a growing number of medical tourists who combine travel with medical care coming to HCM City in recent years, lucrative medical tourism needs concerted efforts by various official agencies and travel firms to realise its huge potential, experts have said.

Language barrier is the biggest obstacle in investigation of crimes involving foreign suspects, said officials of the HCM City People’s Procuracy.

The Embassy of Israel in Việt Nam yesterday presented 20 wheelchairs to disabled children at the Việt Nam – Korea Rehabilitation Centre in Hà Nội’s Quốc Oai District.

Ten people have died and more than 36,000 have been affected by dengue fever since the beginning of the year, according to the report of the Preventive Medicine Department.

Police in Sông Mã District, in the northern mountain province of Sơn La, have arrested two suspects involved in a drug-smuggling racket.

Nearly 3,000 student volunteers last Sunday (18 June) attended the opening ceremony of Tiếp Sức Mùa Thi (Examination Assistance Programme) in HCM City to assist candidates sitting the national high school graduation examinations and seeking college admission.