Around 12 million Vietnamese have hypertension, meaning that one in every five people has the issue, according to information at a seminar on cardiovascular disease held in Hanoi on April 25. Up to 60% of these people have not detected the issue...
The number of newly-found people living with HIV (PLWH) in Vietnam in March skyrocketed by 120.6% to 578 from the previous month, state media reported, citing the Ministry of Health. In March, the number of AIDS patients rose by 22.8% on month to...
Many private hospitals in Vietnam with their investment capital of millions of dollars are on the verge of bankruptcy due to the lack of incentive policies in health insurance, state media reported. The co-payment made by insured patients at private...
Nearly 300 professors, doctors and leading oncologists have gathered in central Danang city to take part in a national conference on cancer prevention and control which opened on April 27. More than 80 studies and reports were presented during the...
Director of Vietnam National Cancer Hospital Tran Van Thuan has said in response to query by a working group of the National Assembly that the world is experiencing more cancer cases every year and Vietnam is not different. He pointed out for main...
The southern province of Binh Duongng has put into operation a wastewater treatment plant in Thuan An Town, the second of its kind in the province. Tran Thanh Liem, deputy chairman of the People’s Committee, said that with a capacity of 17,000cu.m...
More than 60% of water to Vietnam comes from other countries. Scientists have warned that 45% of land area in the southern region will suffer serious saline intrusion in the future. Nguyen Mai, chair of VAFIEs at the workshop on water resource...
Authorities of Vietnam’s south-central coastal city of Nha Trang have recently stated that that the plans to encroach Nha Trang are now just ideas and nothing has been done to the local environment and infrastructure. The authorities gave out the...
Authorities of Vietnam’s south-central coastal city of Nha Trang have recently stated that that the plans to encroach Nha Trang are now just ideas and nothing has been done to the local environment and infrastructure. The authorities gave out the...
Vietnam is willing to learn from Singapore’s experience in managing environmental and water resources as well as environmental quality improvement and green city development, President Tran Dai Quang has said. The Vietnamese president made this...
