The World Bank’s Climate Change and Green Growth Development Policy Financing approved on June 24 a $90-million credit for Vietnam’s policy reforms. The funding, which aligned with the World Bank Group’s Climate Change Action Plan, will help Vietnam...
European partners and donors have recently pledged to finance EUR3.9 million for a project to help State Audit of Vietnam to improve its capacity to supervise state budget spending. The local online newspaper VnExpress (http://kinhdoanh.vnexpress....
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has approved the inclusion of several more hospitals to the ‘Satellite Hospitals’ project in the period of 2016-2020, state media reported. New hospitals to join the list are the National Hospital of Endocrinology...
Experts from the United States’ Mayo Clinic will help the Saint Paul General Hospital apply stem cell transplantation in trauma-orthopedic treatment and train its human resources to handle such applications. The cooperation was part of a Memorandum...
A health partnership meeting on the harmonization of development partners and international non-governmental organizations (INGO) support for 2016-2020 opened in Hanoi on June 28. Organised by the Ministry of Health ,the meeting discussed measures...
Hanoi’s healthcare system needs thorough plans for infrastructure and human resources, or it will lag behind other modernised cities, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Chung said. Chung chaired a recent meeting with the city’s...
The number of people suffering from pink-eye disease has increased rapidly in many localities in Vietnam due to the unpredictable pattern of weather, particularly the prolonged heat, said the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Health...
As many as six more cases of Japanese encephalitis (JE) have been reported in Hanoi over the past week, raising the total cases to nine, the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre announced on June 29. Following the complicated progress of the disease,...
Vietnam's Mekong Delta has suffered losses worth more than VND4.7 trillion ($210 million) due to the severe and prolonged drought and saltwater intrusion during dry season, said the Southwest Region Steering Committee. More than 221,000 hectares of...
Air pollution, especially on the main streets and around construction sites, in central Hanoi has exceeded permissible levels, according to a report released at a seminar on improving environment monitoring capacity in Hanoi last week. Nguyen Trong...
