Hoan My Medical Corp. operated a breast care center worth $2 million in Ho Chi Minh City last week, the first of its kind in Vietnam, the corporation said on its website. The center, which is equipped with modern equipment and technologies, will...
Authorities of Ho Chi Minh City spend VND1 trillion ($52.57 million) to upgrade infrastructure of hospitals each year, the Gia Dinh & Xa Hoi newspaper reported, citing the municipal Department of Health. The information was released at a...
More than 3% of Vietnamese children are disabled, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper cited experts at a recent conference held in the northern province of Phu Tho on May 24. The conference on early detection of deformities among children was jointly held by...
Up to 23,000 children in Vietnam are blind in both eyes and half of these cases could have been preventable if getting timely treatment, statistics from the Hanoi-based Central Eye Hospital showed. The hospital also warned of an increase of children...
The Vietnam National University plans to invest $200 million in a 1,000-bed hospital project and a school of medicine and pharmacy. The project is scheduled to cover 30 hectares in the Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park, 30 kilometers from the center of Hanoi,...
Vietnamese Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu has urged the private sector to invest into the healthcare field in a bid to improve the service quality and reduce the financial burden for the state. Trieu made the call at a conference on public -...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health said that it will inspect management of medicine prices in central hospitals and a number of district-level ones at end-June. The move followed local people’s complaint about uncontrolled medicine price hikes in...
SNV Netherlands Development Organization provided EUR3.7 million ($4.52 million) in non-refundable aid for Vietnam to carry out a project to build 165,672 biogas cellars in 50 cities and provinces through 2012. The project is expected to help...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and authorities of Dien Bien province have signed a record of discussion on a $5.5 million sustainable forest management project in Vietnam’s northwestern region. The project will encourage...
Japan will provide technical assistances for Vietnam to build Hanoi-Noi Bai express railway, using Japanese Shinkansen technology, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported, citing the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport. Under a memorandum of understanding...
