The Red Cross Societies of the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong and the bordering Cambodian province of Mondulkiri shared their professional experience in the Vietnamese locality on January 19. They exchanged effective ways of doing...
The Hue Central Hospital on January 16 held an opening ceremony for tumor treatment medical center in its premise funded by government bond and Austria’s official development assistance (ODA). The VND200-billion ($8.9 million) center has 300 beds...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development last week started a $301 million project named Sustainable Agriculture Transformation and funded by the World Bank (WB), state media has reported. The project, to be implemented in the 2016-...
The Mekong Delta, the biggest rice granary in Vietnam, will carry out the Netherlands-funded agricultural data project to promote the local rice production, state media has reported. The Dutch government will provide EUR1.3 million while Loc Troi...
Vietnam on Jan 15 launched the country’s first official human milk bank at a hospital in central coast city of Danang, using donations from women giving birth there. The project at Danang Ob-gyn and Pediatrics Hospital will collect milk under a...
One year after hospitals in Vietnam started implementing surrogacy technologies, the first surrogate babies will be born this month at the Hanoi-based Central Maternity Hospital and the HCM City-based Tu Du Hospital. Since the technology was made...
An increasing number of Vietnamese patients are spending big to receive medical treatment overseas despite the availability of qualified doctors and high-quality medication in Vietnam, as they prefer the bedside manners of foreign clinicians. Many...
There were 760 medicines and medical equipment or around 2.6% of over 25,000 pharmaceutical products available on Vietnam’s market increased prices in 2015, according to a report by agency of price management under the Ministry of Finance (MoF)....
Groundwater levels along thousands of kilometers of coast stretching from Haiphong City to Ca Mau Province have dropped to alarming levels due to overexploitation for daily use by households. The issue was flagged up by international environmental...
Hundreds of kilos of vegetables with unclear origin were brought to seven schools in Tay Ho district in Hanoi, creating a public stir. “We have to pay VND30,000 for a lunch. We cannot imagine that we have to pay so much money to buy dirty food for...
