The German government is willing to share experiences in managing and training health workers for a hospital for the poor in Vietnam, Dagmar Ziegler, a parliamentarian of the Social Democratic Party of Germany told a visiting Vietnamese official in...
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) is providing a week-long training course on spinal orthopaedics for 35 Vietnamese doctors between May 14 and 21. This is part of a professional development program between the Vietnam Orthopaedics...
Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue has started to build a community healthcare faculty costing $2.5 million funded by the U.S. Atlantic Philanthropies (AP). Covering a site of 4,000 square meters...
The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved a five-year project on providing upbringing knowledge for five million of mothers of children below 16 years old, the government said on its website. The project aims to reduce malnutrition, diseases...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of An Giang is seeking the prime minister’s approval to build a cardiovascular hospital worth VND600 billion ($31.6 million). The hospital, to be built on six hectares in Long Xuyen city, will have 600 sick-beds, the...
Vietnam is listed among the world’s top ten countries with the highest abortion rate, said the Ho Chi Minh City-based Tu Du Hospital at the 10th Vietnam-France-Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive Health in the city from May 12 to 18. The...
Authorities of the Can Tho city in southern Vietnam started the construction of a dyke project along the Can Tho River, with total investment of VND700 billion ($36.82 million) from g-bond May 20, state media reported. Apart from the 10-kilometer...
A book on environmental security for sustainable development, the first of its kind in Vietnam, has been introduced to readers as a publication to mark the World Environment Day (June 5). The book provides readers with new concepts and knowledge on...
The Ho Chi Minh City Tumor and Cancer Hospital May 18 operated a medical wastewater treatment system totaling nearly VND7 billion ($368,200), state media reported. The system with a daily capacity of 700 cubic meters of wastewater is aimed to help...
The Vietnam Environment Protection Fund May 19 lent Thai Hoa Quang Tri Co., Ltd VND22.6 billion ($1.19 million) to build a wastewater treatment system and a microorganism fertilizer production plant in the central province of Quang Ngai. The...
