HCM City businesses offer to pay for COVID-19 tests for staff The HCM City Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDC) has asked city authorities to allow businesses to pay for COVID-19 testing of their staff who have returned to HCM City after the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

Ehealth Vietnam Summit 2020 to take place in Hà Nội next Tuesday The Government Office and the Ministry of Health will jointly organise the National Health Digital Transformation Programme 2020 (eHealth Vietnam Summit 2020) on December 29-30 in Hà Nội.

Contacts of new COVID-19 patients test negative for coronavirus Tests of people related to four new COVID-19 patients in HCM City were negative for SARS-CoV-2, according to the city Disease Control and Prevention Centre.

Health stations in wards, communes use software for patient records

The Ministry of Health has instructed the HCM City Department of Health to use software for information management at health stations in wards and communes.

City’s grassroots-level health facilities fail to attract patients

Health centres and stations in HCM City’s districts, wards and communes have failed to attract patients because of a shortage of facilities, medicines and doctors.

Investment helps ethnic people access quality healthcare services  Tẩn Sa Dấu, a pregnant woman from Ma Ly Pho Commune in the northern province of Lai Châu’s Phong Thổ District, feels happy that she no longer has to travel long distances for regular check-ups.

Vietnamese consume double recommended salt intake level daily: health official Trần Quốc Bảo, head of the Non-communicable Diseases Control Division under the Ministry of Health's General Department of Preventive Medicine, talks to local media on the health risks of eating too much salt 

Health ministry launches telehealth network connecting 1,000 medical facilities The Ministry of Health on Friday launched a remote healthcare consultation and support (telehealth) network that connected 1,000 medical examination and treatment facilities with nearly 30 central or end-line hospitals of Hà Nội and HCM City.

Local people and grassroots health stations get support to fight COVID-19

110 households in Mỹ Đức District listed as the most seriously affected by the pandemic received support as part of the Citi Foundation’s project for COVID-19-related community relief and economic recovery efforts globally.

City to provide free tetanus-diphtheria vaccine for 7-year-old children The HCM City Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention in October will launch a campaign to provide a free 2-in-1 combination vaccine against tetanus and diphtheria to children born in 2013.