Talk around town: Best healthcare services for all

Bạch Mai Hospital, one of the biggest public hospitals in the country, has recently announced it would gradually wipe out so-called “serviced beds” or “beds on demand”.

Hà Nội’s Bạch Mai Hospital to reduce bed sharing rate

Bạch Mai Hospital in Hà Nội is poised to gradually eliminate patient bed-sharing as it moves towards autonomy.

Improving healthcare treatment quality at lower-level hospitals helps reduce hospital congestion

The health sector is trying to strengthen the grassroots healthcare system to improve the quality of primary healthcare and reduce hospital overloading, according to a health official.

Heat wave tests hospitals

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has sent warning to provincial and city-level health departments, hospitals and health centres about the need to strengthen the monitoring of weather forecasts from the National Meteorological and Hydrological Forecast Centre and the implementation of medical examinations for people. 

Dengue prevention: No sharing beds

With the rapid increase of the number of Dengue fever patients nationwide recently, Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến yesterday requested hospitals be selective of inpatients and not to let them share beds.

K Hospital letting patients down

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến ordered the K Hospital’s Director Management Board on Thursday afternoon to clarify responsibility of individuals complained to “cause difficulties” for patients.

In top urban hospitals, bed-sharing the norm

Desperate callings from the patients as well as the healthcare system to address the bed-sharing problem have been repeated year on year, but to little avail so far.

Japan to aid VN's ageing population Plans to build national centres for the elderly following a Japanese model have been on the agenda of health care co-operation between Viet Nam and Japan, officials said.

Government approves construction of wildlife park in Ninh Binh Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a project to build a wild animal park in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

Overloading lifted in hospitals Overloading at hospitals in Viet Nam was reduced significantly in 2014, health officials said at an online conference yesterday.