The Ministry of Health is drafting a circular on a pilot programme for electronic medical records in a bid to save time and money for both doctors and patients.

Students face several diseases at the beginning of the new school year, such as dengue fever, foot-hand-mouth disease, measles and flu, so epidemic prevention efforts should be strengthened, health experts warned.

Adjusting drug tender during the past three or four years has achieved good results and reduced drugs prices.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) and the representative office of Merck Export GMBH in Việt Nam on July 23 signed a MoU agreement on establishing a partnership for a programme to increase pharmacists’ competencies in clinical pharmacy for non-communicable diseases.

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. 

Local-level health care facilities are expected to increase their capacity and provide better services to help reduce pressure at central hospitals by “gaining public trust”, said Nguyễn Nam Liên, director of the Planning and Finance Department under the Ministry of Health (MoH), at the ministry’s press conference yesterday.

The Information Technology Department under the Ministry of Health (MOH) launched new software on June 14 designed to compile a comprehensive database of electronic medical records.

Much like home quick tests, the oral HIV quick test method will be used in Việt Nam for the first time, an official of Ministry of Health (MoH)'s Việt Nam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) said.

Dengue fever may still turn into epidemic, although the number of cases from the beginning of the year has decreased significantly compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH)'s Preventive Medicine Department.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Friday proposed a ban on beer advertisement besides liquor advertisement like present.