The U.S. Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) and Australian Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) have granted a combined $2.2 million to help improve training capacity of medical workers at the Hanoi-based Central Eye Hospital. The physicians are expected to...
The central highlands province of Dak Lak is coordinating with Mondulkiri province of Cambodia to fight malaria in border districts of the two provinces. Almost 100,000 people at high risk of contracting malaria living in Ea Sup and Buon Don in Dak...
A workshop titled “Updates and Best Practices in Second Generation HIV/AIDS Surveillance: The Asia Experience” is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City from Mar 1-5 with the participation of experts from 14 regional nations. The event, following the...
Vietnam will open a U.S. Orbis-financed $500,000 eye bank at the Hanoi-based Central Eye Hospital Mar. 25, the first of its kind in the country so far. The bank is expected to supply 200 corneas a year, the hospital said, adding it has conducted...
The Italian Embassy and University of Sassari will join hands with Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy to organize a healthcare festival in Vietnam’s central city of Hue in June. The event, which is part of Hue Festival 2010 on June 5-13, is...
Vietnam’s southern province of Soc Trang will invest more than VND60.28 billion ($3.16M) to carry out a clean water supply project for poor people this year. Of the sum, VND54.254 billion will come from the state budget and the rest from the...
Ho Chi Minh City has raised prices of clean water by 48% from today [March 1] and will hike 10% a year from 2011 to 2013, state media reported March 1. Under a decision approved by the city’s authorities, households that use up to four cubic meters...
The Asia - Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology (APAMT), Taiwan Poison Control Center, Taibei Veterans General Hospital and Cho Ray Hospital of Vietnam held an international conference on poisoning treatment in Ho Chi Minh City Mar. 4. Speaking...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has urged the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to focus on the training of human resources for the environment sector from now up to 2015....
Ho Chi Minh City will spend VND390 billion ($20.4 million) to implement anti-flood projects in the first half to reduce 40% of the submerged places this year, an environment official of the city said. Do Tan Long, head of the municipal Center for...
