The health and safety of agricultural workers and the role of the Vietnamese Farmers Association were on the agenda at a seminar in Hanoi on Dec. 4. Working in an agriculture environment exposes many workers to dangerous toxic elements, said...
Vietnam’s Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu has approved a plan to expand cancer prevention and treatment network across the country between 2009 and 2020, the Nhan dan newspaper reported Dec. 8. Under the plan, Vietnam will build an additional...
The World Health Organization (WHO) will send 1.2 million doses of ArepanrixTM A/H1N1 vaccine to Vietnam from now until February 2010.The WHO representative office in Vietnam said on Dec. 9 that ArepanrixTM vaccine produced by GlaxoSmithKline in...
The health insurance fund continues to suffer a deficit of nearly VND2 trillion (around $117.6 million) in 2009 with overspending 15%, higher previous deficits in 2007 and 2008. Explaining the deficit for 2009, Nguyen Minh Thao, a senior official...
Vietnam’s National Assembly and the International Parliament Union (IPU) co-organized an Asia-Pacific conference on strengthening parliaments’ role in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Hanoi Dec 10. The two-day conference attracted the...
The German Reconstruction Bank (KfW) signed a loan worth US$7.3 million with the Vietnam-Germany Hospital in Hanoi on December 11. Speaking at the ceremony, Hospital Director Nguyen Tien Quyet said his hospital and the German side have cooperated...
Vietnam has had 14 liver transplant cases so far, 50 percent of which were performed by the HCM City-based Children’s Hospital No 2. Hospital Deputy Director Truong Quang Dinh said that although hospital fees are partly covered by health...
Food safety inspectors in Vietnam’s central city of Danang found melon seeds offered for sale in Ha market, Hai Chau district containing a carcinogenic agent named Rhodamine B, the Sai gon Giai phong newspaper reported Dec. 10. The product was made...
The Vietnam Pulp &Paper Association (VPPA), Tetra Park and the Institute for Industrial Policy under the Ministry of Industry and Trade are building a policy to encourage paper recycling, the Thoi bao Kinh te Sai gon newspaper reported Dec. 7....
Vietnam is seeking more financial resources for its plans to combat climate change, said an environmental official said at a seminar on climate change in Hanoi last week. Nguyen Khac Hieu vice chief of the Steering Board for the Implementation of...
