Heat wave tests hospitals

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. 

Hospitals battle summer heat

As the Northern and Central regions have been sweltered for weeks, hospitals have received huge influxes of patients who suffered from heat-related illnesses.

Hot weather disrupts country

The hot weaher has brought more patients to hospitals in Hà Nội in the past week due to exhaustion and summer diseases.

Children to get measles vaccine earlier

The Ministry of Health plans to start giving measles vaccine to children in their sixth month instead of the ninth, Deputy Health Minister Nguyễn Thanh Long has said.

Summer diseases on the rise in capital city

According to the Hà Nội Preventine Medicine Centre, from the beginning of the year, some diseases like whooping cough, measles, rubella, dengue fever, and streptococcal infection have seen a trend of increased occurrence in the city.

Hà Nội ensures power supply during hot weather

Chairman of the Hà Nội People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung has asked the Hà Nội Electricity Company not to cut power during the ongoing hot weather.

Experts say cooling device unsafe

A handmade cooling device – one of the best selling products for low-income earners in cities can cause negative impacts on users’ health and household appliances, engineers and health experts warns.

Hà Nội tackles summer diseases

Hà Nội health authorities have taken precautions to prevent epidemics and diseases that frequently occur in the period over spring and summer during the hot weather.

Ministry warns of growing threat of summer diseases Dangerous infectious diseases in other parts of the world, especially the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV), could reach Viet Nam, according to the Ministry of Health's General Department of Preventive Medicine.

Petrol cuts help reduce CPI in May The consumer price index in May inched down by 0.06 per cent against the previous month, making it the second month this year to show a decline, said the General Statistics Office (GSO).