PM urges cancer hospital to improve patient satisfaction

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc awarded the third-class Independence Order to K Hospital, Việt Nam’s leading cancer hospital, during a ceremony in Hà Nội on Thursday celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Incredible woman loses and finds a leg to stand on

A woman wakes up one day to find she's lost a leg, then climbs out of despair with incredible tenacity and grace.

3 die, 38 injured in sleeper bus, truck collision

Three people died and other 37 people were injured in the collision between a sleeper bus and a truck on National Highway No6 in Mai Châu District, northern province of Hoà Bình around mid-night.

Four major hospitals to run full autonomy pilot programme The Government has announced a pilot programme under which four major hospitals will have full financial and managerial autonomy.

Drink driving a scourge that must be smote I hate that once many Vietnamese men sit down for a drink with friends, they are forced to down their drinks to show their “respect” to their drinking buddies or to show that they are “true men”

VNRC to provide at least 1.5 million Tết gifts to the poor and AO victims

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) plans to provide at least 1.5 million gifts to the poor, Agent Orange victims, disadvantaged people and those affected by natural disasters in 2018 ahead the traditional Tết (Lunar New Year) festival.

Recap: 2018 proves a year to remember

Take a look back at some of the highlights of 2018, from new leadership and economic development to the memorable moment when the national football team raised the AFF Cup for the first time in a decade.

Vietnamese doctors succeed in first transplant of two lungs

Doctors from the Hà Nội-based Việt Đức hospital on Monday announced to successfully conduct the first transplant of two lungs from a brain-dead donor on a cancer patient.

Doctors perform VN’s first kidney transplant on child from brain-dead adult

Doctors have performed a successful kidney transplant on a 15-year-old boy with kidney failure at Pediatrics Hospital No.2 in HCM City, the country’s first organ transplant on a child using a donated kidney from a brain-dead adult.

Registration hotlines reduce waiting time at hospitals

Việt Đức is one of the hundreds of hospitals nationwide that have applied health examination registration via hotlines or websites to reduce waiting time for patients.