Local chemical manufacturers ready to help prevent COVID-19

Local chemical manufacturers have increased their inventories in order to ensure products available to meet the market needs.

Agent Orange victims association backs Trần Tố Nga’s appeal against French court’s ruling

The Việt Nam Association for Victims of Agent Orange (AO) (VAVA) has affirmed it will provide spiritual and material support to Trần Tố Nga to continue her lawsuit against US firms that manufactured the toxic AO defoliant used by US forces during the war in Việt Nam.

HCM City's health sector wins regional, int'l acclaim

HCM City's Department of Health  is continuing its focus on developing the application of state-of-the-art healthcare techniques at general and specialised hospitals that its counterparts in Asia have also been pursuing.

New health insurance policy may cause overload at city-leveled hospitals HCM City’s public hospitals face a threat of being overrun due to a change in the health insurance policy that increases the claim settlement level from 60 per cent to 100 per cent when transferred to higher-level hospitals.

Việt Nam sees increasing survival rate of premature infants

Advances in treatment at hospitals nationwide have helped save more and more premature infants who are at high risk of mortality. 

Mekong Delta healthcare system growing rapidly, eases pressure on HCM City hospitals

The healthcare system in the Mekong Delta has been steadily expanding and becoming increasingly sophisticated, and the large number of choices available now is helping reduce overcrowding at HCM City hospitals.

New study brings hope to infertile couples

Vương Thi Ngọc Lan, a specialist at the HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, has brought hope to thousands of infertile couples in Việt Nam through a study about the efficiency between the transfer of fresh or frozen embryos in women without polycystic ovaries for in vitro fertilisation (IVF).

Creative hospital staff pitch in with innovations in Covid-19 fight

Medical staff at many hospitals around the country have been creative in fabricating automatic devices as they take care of an increasing number of COVID-19 patients.

No new suspected coronavirus cases in HCM City

All three patients who tested positive for COVID-19 and were treated in HCM City hospitals have recovered fully and all 32 suspected cases in the city have tested negative as of Wednesday (February 19), according to the city Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention.

Doctors, nurses welcome Tết in hospital Tết (Lunar New Year) is a time for families to get together and celebrate up and down Viet Nam, but not for medical workers.