The Ministry of Health will soon spell out what medicines and medical techniques should be used by ward- and commune-level health centres around the country to make the family medicine model more efficient and reassure patients.
The slow growth of the agricultural sector starting in 2015, shortcomings of small-scale production, poor quality and productivity amid fiercer global competition are threatening the sustainability of farming in Việt Nam and demanding institutional and mechanism changes.
Microsoft Việt Nam and the Audio Books Charity Fund for the Blind launched a year-long ICT Training programme for the visually impaired in HCM City on March 25.
The central city plans to petition the Prime Minister for adjustments to the Sơn Trà Master Plan in order to better protect the eponymous nature reserve.
A new system, implemented by the city’s Department of Health, hopes to encourage patients to voice their dissatisfaction with hospitals in order to improve the quality of care.
Shortage of funding and trained personnel, as well as social discrimination, are undermining Việt Nam’s hard-won success in combatting the scourge of tuberculosis.
The traditional use of pangolin scales to treat blocked milk ducts is touted by a number of websites online, but doctors of traditional medicine say scientific research proves that it is ineffective.
The Central Highlands provinces have good potential for growing macadamia, but more studies are needed to grow the nut, according to the Central Highlands Steering Committee.
Electric short-circuit was cited as the main cause of the huge fire that engulfed a Taiwanese garment factory in southern Cần Thơ Province’s Trà Nóc Industrial Zone.
Some 200 firefighters from the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ and seven neighbouring provinces and cities worked themselves into exhaustion to extinguish a fire that broke out last week at a Taiwanese garment factory.
Doctors of HCM City Paediatrics Hospital No 1 have successfully performed a congenital heart surgery for a premature baby weighing 900grams, the lightest patient ever.
Hà Nội police yesterday reported they had detained a suspect for investigation into a cheating case related to property appropriation.
The Hải Phòng City police have decided to initiate criminal proceedings against three journalists from Kinh Doanh and Pháp Luật (Business and Law) newspaper for extortion.
The Việt Nam Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre is mobilising efforts and has called for support from all vessels to participate in the search for nine missing crewmen.
One foreign tourist was killed and another injured in a traffic accident on National Highway 6 through northern mountainous Hòa Bình Province.
The Hà Nội People’s Committee has approved a pilot programme that will use software and automation technology to manage public parking zones on two streets in Hoàn Kiếm District.
Traffic accidents have killed 2,100 people and injured 3,800 others in the first three months of 2017, which is a decrease compared to the same period last year.
The People’s Court of the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Đắk Nông yesterday handed sentences of up to nine years imprisonments and another four and a half years of suspended sentences to a whistleblower-turned-briber and seven others for taking bribes and taking advantages of influence to seek personal benefits.
A soaring number of methanol poisoning cases from bad-quality methanol-laced alcohol have substantially harmed the reputation of traditional alcohol-making villages, the Nông Thôn Ngày Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper reported.
Up to 76 per cent of pork meat sold in traditional markets in Việt Nam are slaughtered in substandard abattoirs. The rate of pork meat infected with Salmonella, a group of bacteria that can cause food poisoning, is estimated at 30-40 per cent.
