Đức Giang General Hospital has started a medical programme to provide free checkup, consulting and endoscopy surgery to patients with digestion diseases, especially digestion cancers on August 13 in Hà Nội.

As many as 271 cases of measles have been reported in Hà Nội since the beginning of this year, compared to just 60 for all of last year.

Ninety per cent of assaults against medical workers occurred while they were treating patients and those actions should be prevented.

The Ministry of Health has asked the Ministry of Public Security to send police to guard hospitals to prevent violent attacks on doctors and medical staff.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee yesterday urged the city’s police department and Department of Health to investigate the death of an eight-month-old on January 23.

Health experts will talk about advanced techniques and share their experience in colorectal cancer diagnosis and treatment at an international symposium beginning today.

Information Technology applications in health exams and treatment have improved information flow and storage in the healthcare sector, a year-end review found yesterday.

Việt Nam’s national cancer control strategy needed to address the serious problem of infectious agents, blamed for more than 20 per cent of malignancies in the world, Professor Nguyễn Chấn Hùng, chairman of Việt Nam Cancer Society, said this week.

As interest in beauty treatments has grown, shoddy spas have cropped up seeking quick profits, resulting in operating table deaths and post-surgery complications that leave scars and deformities.

A “terrible waste” of resources is taking place as a grand plan to shift Government offices, schools and hospitals to suburban enclaves in the capital city fails to materialise, almost three years on.