Gov’t inspectors scrutinise health insurance fund, bidding for medicine The inspection aims to find shortcomings as well as inadequate mechanisms and policies so they can be amended.

Police to patrol at hospitals to protect staff

Police officers will be mobilised to patrol at general and specialised hospitals at national, city/provincial and town/district levels to ensure security and order.

Telemedicine connects doctors, saves lives

In 2013, a project to address understaffing and overcrowding at central hospitals in Việt Nam was approved, highlighting ‘telemedicine’ as a key measure to solve the problems.

Medical programme provides free digestion checkup and surgery in Đức Giang Hospital

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.

Abnormal rise in measles 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.

Violence against medical staff should be prevented

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

Health ministry ask police to guard hospitals

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.

Investigation into newborn’s death begins

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.

Experts share experience at first colorectal cancer symposium

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

Healthcare info flow improves in 2017: officials

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