Highlights of health sector’s 65-year achievements On February 27, 1955, late President Hồ Chí Minh sent a letter to a conference of healthcare workers across the country. The 368-word letter asked for three things: to stay honest and united, love patients, and devoted to developing the country’s healthcare sector. Since then February 27 has been known as Vietnamese Doctors’ Day.

Stressed-out nurses love their jobs but need help from hospital leaders     Although nursing involves high work pressure and stress, many nurses at health facilities throughout the country are reluctant to leave the profession.

‘Significant’ improvement in healthcare services: Johnson & Johnson Vietnam chief

With International Nurses to be marked on May 12, Jun Hong Park, managing director of Johnson & Johnson Vietnam, speaks to Việt Nam News about the improvement in the quality of healthcare and nurses in Việt Nam.

Grassroots healthcare system is the ground for healthcare sector

Vice chairman of the National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee Bùi Sỹ Lợi talks to Đại biểu nhân dân (People’s Representative) newspaper about how grassroots healthcare system must be the foundation for improving the sector.

Doctors warn of global C-section ’epidemic’

Worldwide Caesarean section use has nearly doubled in two decades and has reached "epidemic" proportions in some countries, doctors warned Friday, highlighting a huge gap in childbirth care between rich and poor mothers.

Local health station struggles burden nat’l system

Việt Nam’s grassroots healthcare system is failing to win public trust, resulting in overcrowding at provincial-level hospitals and hampering efforts to ensure universal health coverage in the country.

Midwifery, maternal, family planning reports launched

Accessing quality healthcare is a basic human right, and greater investment in midwifery is key to making this right a reality for all women everywhere.

The godmother for infertile couples

Professor Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Phượng, 74, former director of Từ Dũ Obstetrics Hospital in HCM City, was the first person in Việt Nam to offer a fertility treatment in which embryos are introduced directly into the uterus, called in vitro fertilization (IVF).

An unnatural belief in natural cures1

There seemed to be a collective gasp of horror as the news spread recently of a mother and her new-born dying as she tried to give birth at home.

Wind tombs

A short story by Lan Quy