More than 15,000 of 20 million children were reported to have suffered minor side effects after being injected with the measles – rubella vaccine from late 2014 to May 2015. The children, ages 1 to 14, reported side effects, including fever and...
All districts across Vietnam have reached a measles-rubella vaccination rate of over 95%, according the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health (MOH), which is now urging all provinces to complete the immunization work to have...
The Hanoi Department of Construction has inspected hospitals in the city, uncovering wrongdoings at four local hospitals in weight miscalculations, incorrect unit prices, and wrong payment appraisal worth billions of dong, the Tien Phong newspaper...
Vietnam has nearly four million people, or 3.9% of the population suffering from asthma as a result of rising environmental pollution and between 3,000 and 4,000 people die each year from the chronic lung disease, the Vietnam News Agency on July 28...
Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An is preparing to soon open the Vinh International Hospital, which cost nearly VND900 billion ($41.25 million), on expectation that the new modern facility would help ease overload for medical demand at central-...
The Ministry of Health's Preventive Medicine Department, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and Pasteur Institute plan to launch a campaign in late 2015 to provide free measles-rubella vaccines to more than 2 million young women in high-...
The Mekong Delta, Vietnam’s biggest granary, home to a widespread network of rivers and canals, has been threatened by the rising level of salt water flowing into rice fields and farms. There have been warnings about such a situation for years, but...
Vietnam’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cao Duc Phat, and visiting New Zealand Minister for Food Safety Jo Goodhew agreed to step up cooperation in food safety between the two countries, as they met in Hanoi on Monday. Goodhew began...
Water levels on the upper section of the Mekong River are rising rapidly, said Luu Van Ninh, Director of the An Giang provincial Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre. The water level in Tan Chau town and Chau Doc city in An Giang province is...
The HCMC Department of Natural Resources and Environment has finished appraising a waste-to-power project using thermal plasma technology proposed by Trisun Green Energy Co. The HCMC-based company plans to spend around $520 million developing the...
