The Ministry of Health urged city and provincial people’s committees, health departments and citizens across the country to take preventions against a possible bird flu over the next 16 days ahead of the Lunar New Year and during first months of the new year.
Ensuring adequate and timely supply of medicines, especially for the prevention and treatment of rare diseases and to specialised departments at hospitals, will be the central aspect of HCM City’s Strategy on National Pharmaceutical Development.
Authorities have called for more measures to reduce traffic congestion at HCM City’s Cát Lái Port, District 2 and 9.
Police of the northern province of Bắc Giang announced on Monday they have arrested Nguyễn Đức Minh, 35, for allegedly robbing more than VNĐ1.1 billion (US$48,400) from the Dĩnh Kế branch of Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development last Friday.
The northern province of Hòa Bình has shown responsibility and solidarity in recovering from the effects of typhoons last year.
The Mỹ Tho-Vũng Tàu hydrofoil route was opened for use on Sunday in the southern province of Bến Tre.
A solid waste treatment plant was opened for public use on Sunday in Đức Phổ District in the central province of Quảng Ngãi.
The HCM City Public Transport Management and Operation Centre wants to offer free tickets on buses running to Tân Sơn Nhất international airport to help ease congestion as Tết (Lunar New Year) draws close.
Đặng Quang Hữu, 44, of Đakrông District in the central province of Quảng Trị, is known as a bank owner who has risen from owning nothing to offering loans to 600 poor local households. Unlike other financiers, he requires no interest payments, supporting them as they grow forests to escape from poverty.
Historically, the mostly publicly financed health care system in Việt Nam has only been able to afford to pour resources into a handful of central level hospitals in big cities, forcing patients living in remote areas with serious diseases to go to Hà Nội or HCM City for treatment.
Nguyễn Thị Hồng Thương, 33, runs a large ginseng garden with more than 600 plants and many other traditional herbal medicine plants.
A cold wave which hit the northern region yesterday has lowered temperatures in the northern and northern central localities down to around 10 degrees Celsius. The cold snap is expected to last for the next in 10 days.
HCM City authorities are taking measures to ensure access to clean water during the dry season and upcoming Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.
Transport departments from HCM City and southern provinces have started a campaign to better control unauthorised buses, coaches and bus terminals. They will also punish the owners of buses that stop in unauthorised places.
Post-harvest losses not only refer to the quantity of lost crops, but also any reductions in their quality and access to international markets, experts have said.
The HCM City Fire and Rescue Police Department and the Sài Gòn Water Supply Corporation will install 11,000 more fire hydrants by 2025 after being instructed to do so by the People’s Committee at a conference on fire hydrant management on January 25.
The People’s Committee of HCM City’s District 1 on Thursday proposed expanding the current model for pavement food stalls at a meeting with the city’s People Committee on the district’s development for 2018.
A vocational school in Vĩnh Yên City in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc is training canines that are used as a special force to seek and rescue people if any incident, accident or natural disaster occurs.
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A lack of funding is a major problem in implementing the master plan on simplifying administrative procedures, citizenship papers and the population management database for 2013-2020, according to officials.
