Clinics in communes have improved their healthcare services and facilities to attract more local people and reduce patient overloads at city and province-level hospitals.

The Hà Nội-based 108 Military Central Hospital has become the first medical facility in Việt Nam and Southeast Asia to successfully perform a double forearm transplant.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has urged the Ministry of Transport to direct contractors to finish upgrading the runways at Nội Bài and Tân Sơn Nhất international airports and put them into operation before the year-end peak travel season.